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May 10, 2009

Summer’s Finally Arrived–Almost

Well, relatively speaking. DC’s weather pattern is something like: January-March = cold, April = schizophrenic between hot and cold, May = warm but lots of rain, June = right into summer. So, over the past few weeks, I’ve finally been able to enjoy a semblance of warmer weather.

As the summer movie season is here, I’m going to start reviewing any movies I see, starting with Star Trek (later this week–I want to wait ’til my sister has a chance to see it). My cricket updates will continue in my next post (also later this week). Before that, I’ll just recap a few of the things I’ve been doing the past few weeks.

Fleeting Cherry Blossoms

I just barely managed to catch the cherry blossoms around the tidal basin this year before they all faded away. I didn’t go to the actual festival (on account of oddly good weather, it was madly crowded) but I hear it was fun. Anyway, since it was late in the month, there were only a few spots where there was still anything visibly in bloom–we did see a little bit, however, and visited a couple of the monuments around the basin.

XKCD Meetup Again

Also managed to put together another XKCD meetup in the DC area, which went by pretty well. We met over at Teaism in Penn Quarter as usual, and then went over to Dupont Circle (this just happened to be the same day and same time as a Washington Capitols game let out, so we nearly got separated at the metro on the way up–but, some planning avoided that being a problem).

The main reason we went up to Dupont Circle was because of a protest by Project Ch*n*l*gy at the Sc**nt*l*gy Center (vowels removed to avoid coming up on searches, but you can figure out who I’m talking about). It was interesting, but since it was great weather and we were in a good area, we didn’t spent that long there.

Thereafter, we went over to Kramerbooks & Afterwords Cafe for dessert, then spent the rest of the day playing card games in Dupont Circle.

Minor Cricket Aside

Oh, and for my birthday, my sister got me a cricket bat! Now that I have a bat and ball, all I need to find are a large field and 21 other people in the area who know how to play cricket, and I’m set!