SO spendy for, what I'm given to understand is a lot of reading and not much wow.

Actually, it's a lot of fun, and there are some cool interactive exhibits. I probably would have been less impressed if I'd paid for it (I took students). I also would caution against weekends, there are a LOT of children there. I also caution against March in general, since it's spring break for a lot of kids, and they are on vacation here.

tap, tap, tap...tapping my foot.

Out of town friend had a bad flight...so instead of meeting us at 10am, she went to bed...was supposed to call after my 1pm appointment but I haven't heard from her.

Should I let her sleep or should I get her up so that she sleeps later? What ARE the rules with W to E jet lag?

I also caution against March in general, since it's spring break for a lot of kids, and they are on vacation here.

A sound point, which I actually did make...but I think there was a desire to see Cherry Blossoms...though I did stress that the festival isn't until the end of the month.

Haven't been down to the Basin lately. ARE there any blossoms out?

We're at our layover in Charlotte. This airport is so big and each of those little tram type things aren't allowed to leave their terminal, so we had to get on 3 different ones to get to our gate. We have a long wait until our next flight. Plenty of time to catch up with my comics.

I can't imagine being a grandmother that young. I'm 30 and can just about imagine being a mom.

bonny - even if there aren't many blossoms out, the freer and sackler have a number of cherry blossom related events this month. [link]

I hope you have a great trip, SJ!

Thanks, Perkins! Today is all about getting there, finding our way to T's and having a big plate of pasta before getting some sleep. T's mom is a fabulous cook, so I'm really looking forward to the pasta.

Here's a (free!) alternative to the spy museum, bonny: National Cryptologic Museum

Have a great trip, sj!

edited to fix the link

She's 38. Has an 18 year old, who has a four month old

Yoinks!

Sometimes I freak out when I think about how old I'll be when my kids actually grow up and start considering having children. But then I look at my little noodles and I decide that the kids, whatever my age, are totally worth it.

Yeah, it freaks me out and makes me a little sad--I'm like "Hmm, I'm 30, and have no partner, so the likelihood of children in the near future is small...eep?"

I just remembered that I had a dream last night about being in an elevator with a couple people, and it started to crash, and we were having to like, hit "continue" on a little computer screen in the elevator to make it keep trying not to crash. And then I woke up and was like "Well, that was weird, usually my nightmares are much more predictable!"...and then went on to have one of my more usual nightmares about someone being in my house. Except it was a strange fat older man who was apparently using my shower, and was wearing a bathrobe and had like, a cleansing facial mask on (like, blue stuff you smear on, not like halloween mask). SO WEIRD.