{"id":1117,"date":"2016-01-24T19:23:53","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T02:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/?p=1117"},"modified":"2016-01-24T19:23:53","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T02:23:53","slug":"escape-from-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/2016\/01\/escape-from-dc","title":{"rendered":"Escape from DC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/iamthebestartist\/24503910801\/in\/album-72157663764477901\/\" title=\"Library of Congress Interior I\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1500\/24503910801_eda8bf901d_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" alt=\"Library of Congress Interior I\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Note: If you happen to read this blog on its actual website you may notice that I have updated the template. Let me know if you see anything weird.<\/p>\n<p>I got back from DC on Friday night. It&#8217;s a decent story, the whole trip. I was invited down to go to an all-day meeting for a library-adjacent project that Mozilla is doing along with <abbr=\"institute for museum and library services\">IMLS<\/abbr> and some other folks. I got invited because I understand tech and digital literacy and understand digital inclusion issues. &#8220;Great,&#8221; I thought, &#8220;I&#8217;ll extend my trip a few days and see a few DC sights while I am down there&#8230;&#8221; Great plan, mostly. I got in Tuesday and went to the MLK Jr. branch and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jessamyn\/status\/689613860094021632\">caught an MLK movie playing the Black History room<\/a>. The meeting was fine, just sort of long and I am not great at meetings. I got in and they had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/iamthebestartist\/albums\/72157663764477901\">misspelled my name on my name tag<\/a> and even though I&#8217;ve been doing a lot of meditating and other uncrabby-me work, it still set the day off on a bad foot. I appreciate being invited to high-level meetings. I like the people there and feel like I contribute usefully, but there is something about them that brings out the worst in my psyche. I wish I understood it.<\/p>\n<p>By the time the meeting was over on Wednesday, and I was having dinner with a Twitter friend (Hi Kyle!) it was clear that leaving town on Friday was going to be a mess because of the snow. I called the airline and they could reschedule me for a fee but not cancel my flight without a fee. Later in the week this moved to free rescheduling options but still no cancelling. I bet on it being cancelled and bought a train ticket for Friday. Since I flew out of Providence and not Burlington this was a shortish ride. When I went to bed at a friend&#8217;s place (Thanks Mary!) on Thursday after <a href=\"http:\/\/mlkshk.com\/p\/17BFA\">a long day of walking around downtown DC<\/a> and dinner with a friend my flight was cancelled, entitling me to a refund (I can pay for my ticket online but a refund takes several weeks and forms to fill out). I got up Friday and went to the train station to get my train only to find that my ticket had been purchased for <em>the day before<\/em>. I accept this absent-minded professor brain I have been gifted with, but it&#8217;s a pain sometimes.<\/p>\n<p>Despite all the news of people fleeing the city, I was able to get another ticket and had a nice Acela ride to Providence. The quiet car is a thing of beauty. Took the MBTA from the train station to the Providence airport and as I was lugging my bags from the train station to the parking garage (a schlep of about twenty minutes) a bored newslady grabbed me and asked how my day had been. Apparently there were no more flights in to or out of PVD and she was thin on story material. I blabbed for a while and then got to my car to find that I&#8217;d lost my parking ticket. Nervous about &#8220;lost ticket&#8221; threats I explained my &#8220;I just left DC!&#8221; story to the guy who took pity on me and charged me about half of what I would have paid if I had my card on me (money Mozilla doesn&#8217;t have to reimburse, you&#8217;re welcome!). Got home via the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.misscranstondiner.com\/\">Miss Cranston Diner<\/a> just in time to see myself on television.<\/p>\n<p>Spent the entire day at home Saturday watching it snow and didn&#8217;t see another human being. I also visited the White House on Thursday (actually the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/1600\/eeob\">Eisenhower Executive Office Building<\/a>) to talk to the folks I spoke with over the summer, but there&#8217;s no real news and I said I wouldn&#8217;t be blogging about it. You can see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/search\/?user_id=35034353562%40N01&#038;sort=date-taken-desc&#038;tags=wardepartmentlibrary&#038;view_all=1\">some nice photos of the four-story library which is inside it<\/a> and a photo of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/iamthebestartist\/24586206665\/in\/album-72157663764477901\/\">bowling alley in the basement<\/a>. Apparently once you get inside you can just walk around with your Appointment pass all day long.<\/p>\n<p>Today was shoveling (Westport for eightish inches) and watching some football with Jim. I head back to Vermont tomorrow. Being back on the road has been great since I&#8217;m feeling good enough to do it. Here&#8217;s to more good days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/2016\/01\/escape-from-dc\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Escape from DC\"><p>Note: If you happen to read this blog on its actual website you may notice that I have updated the template. Let me know if you see anything weird. I got back from DC on Friday night. It&#8217;s a decent story, the whole trip. 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