Incidentally...

Today was a day of fun and suprises. After luxuriously sleeping in until around 10 a.m. and then laying around and watching t.v. until around two, I got myself together and headed to downtown D.C. Today I mest my friend Alexandra DeArmon. We're both in the THET 112 performance class and had to write a paper on observing a performance in public, one that we weren't to attend but simply observe. So we decided to meet and scope out a performance downtown. I met her at the Friendship Arch in Chinatown, a section that I hadn't been to yet, and I LOVED IT! Such a great little section of D.C., one that I want to go back to in the future. She had just got out of a performance of An Enemy of the People at the Shakespeare Theatre. So we walked around and headed over to the Smithsonian mall. Such a glorious evening. It had rained earlier, but was very clear out by then. The air was just cool enough to be comfortable and there were just enough people walking around on the streets for it to feel festive. Joggers jogged around the mall and tourists were going from museum to museum. A very lovely fall day.

Alexandra and I then stumbled upon an anti-Bush protest which we decided to use as our public performance exhibit. So we strolled over and watched the demonstrators and how they performed for the audience and then how the audience reacted to the performance. A very interesting, but somewhat pointless and ridiculous, protest. Yet it was something to see and fulfilled my paper assignement, so I was happy. After this, we decided to go get dinner and stroll around in the gorgeous afternoon. AND THEN, lo and behold, I ran into Emily Brewer on the sidewalk in front of the Ronald Regean building!!!! Who would have guessed? I had never imagined running into anyone from my past here and then all of the sudden I bump into Emily in the most random place at the most random time! A New York moment in D.C. I guess. The things that happed in life...

So we talked for a few minutes, she was with a group of her friends and they were searching for a restaurant too. Emily's going to King College now and she was here with the annual King freshman class trip. Every year the new freshmen go to either NYC or D.C. on alternating years, this year it was D.C. and she just happened to be right in our path at the right time. It was interesting seeing her, made me retrospective for the rest of the evening. So anyway, after a few minutes of chatting we said goodbye and parted ways, Alexandra and I headed to dinner.

We then descended into the Old Post office which has an international food court on the bottom floor. I settled on a Gyro, which I love. You can never beat a gyro. Yay grecian food. But after dinner we headed back to the Chinatown metro stop and went to my apartment. We just kind of walked around the grounds for a while before heading over to Target and the mall next door. Fun times, and such a nice night to stroll around. I'm glad to final be making good friends here with good people.

So Alexandra headed back to her apartment a couple of hours ago and I've been kind of relaxing from the copious amounts of walking I did today. Fun times. Tomorrow UTAS (Undergrad Theatre Arts Society) is hosting Kicknic and a movie night which I'm considering going to. It would be a nice social event to attend and a good way to get to konw more fellow theatre students. Who knows though? I do have an awful lot of reading and homework to do, so it may be wiser to stay in and do that. But the movie isn't until eight...so who knows? Well I'm off, today has been long and the night is short!