Public vs. Private

Hello from DC! I'm finally here and semi-settled, though there doesn't seem to be a grocer very close to our apartment. I've yet to explore thoroughly, but this could be a problem. Otherwise the place is great...2 bedrooms, decent sized kitchen, nice living room with a TV and amazing cable, wireless internet, yadda yadda yadda. Suffice it to say I couldn't really be happier with the living situation, save perhaps the not so optimal 15 minute walk to the closest metro stop. Can't really complain though.

I got really lucky in that the city had a terrible heat wave that subsided right before I arrived last night. Yesterday's high was 94, while I don't think today the temperature eclipsed 83. The walk to the Hall of the States (to see Ralph Nader speak, courtesy of Princeton in Washington) was still fairly sweat-inducing, but it could've been much worse. It was great to have something to do my first day here. They invited us to see Nader talk and then the SIW summer coordinator put together a kickball game on the lawn next to the Washington Monument later in the afternoon. Mostly due to color schemes, we played with Harvard against Cal and Michigan. It of course didn't take along before it became the whole public vs. private thing. Sleep soundly my friends...after a slow start we came back for 5-3 victory over those unbearable Berkeley-ans and their now guilty-by-association Wolverine companions (I might add that I scored the go-ahead run, but that's neither here nor there). 

Lastly, is anyone going to be in Boston over Labor Day weekend? I might be there for a night...