If You Can't Find Something to Study, it's also Your Fault

So, to sum up:  Friday I was with China friends, Saturday with Woodberry friends, Sunday with Law School friends, and today I went into Crystal City to get a burger with Christian Amonson, which rounds out the weekend with William and Mary friends.

Of particular note was a performance I saw on Sunday of Julius Caesar.  It was at the Harman Center, where I got the backstage tour a while back, and was absolutely amazing.  I had forgotten how many classic lines are in that show.  Not just "friends, Romans, countrymen," and "beware the Ides of March," but also things like "Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!" (which was said and staged in the most terrifying and menacing way possible).  My favorite, though, occurs just after Brutus, Cassius, and the rest of the conspirators have killed off Caesar.  They're sort of taking in the reality of what they've done and Cassius says: "How many ages hence shall this our lofty scene be acted over in states unborn and accents yet unknown!"  Of course, the audience laughed at this because of the obvious meta-implications, but I also love it for the epic and overwhelming truth of it all.  I wonder if Shakespeare sat back after writing that line and considered the thought that his plays would bear out the same truth....

That evening there was a National Symphony Orchestra event on the lawn of the Capitol.  Since it was free, like most things in this town, I decided to go for an hour or so.

I took this photo while waiting in security at the airport-I mean concert.

The concert was excellent and predictably patriotic (and now, Sousa!  Followed by... Sousa!).

Today my metro out to Crystal City to get burgers with Christian represented the first time since I've been here that I've left the district and gone back to Virginia.  It was nice to visit.  After I got back I spent about five hours in the library doing all of my homework for tomorrow plus half of my homework for Wednesday and Thursday.  Theoretically this will still force me to work on Tuesday and Wednesday nights and will make me more productive than if I had finished all of my work for Wednesday and left all of Thursday for the next two days.  Theoretically.