today was PRESENTATION DAY. the reason we are in DC. but you don’t want to hear too much about that. we presented on our eorientation and flipped advising we’re doing at the college, and my part was the creation of it – content and web dev side. i had to talk for a solid 10 minutes or so, which was ok. and i knew what i was talking about, so that was good. my first practice run-through was awful, but i practiced four times today and felt good about it.
here’s what i know about me and public speaking. it’s like math. i am good at it, but i don’t enjoy it and would rather not do it. but i always end up doing well. and based on the questions afterward, this was a pretty good session. there was some humor, it was interesting, and at one point i turned to the deal of lib. arts and said “WOW bob (our web dev) is a GENIUS”. i hadn’t really paid attention to the back end stuff he’d done for advising, and some of the stuff he did was just amazeballs to me. 
ANYWAY…here’s what you really want to know about: we went to a nearby diner for breakfast, where i had eggs, hashbrowns, and toast, as well as a giant latte. the hashbrowns were a square! just a friend square of hashbrowns. kind of like a mcdonald’s hashbrown, but bigger and beefier. (and better.) the jam was home made and delish. 
ended up not eating lunch, but we did have “light fare” at a conference reception, which was pretty decent for conference food. 
then we took the metro to an uzbek/russian restaurant for supper, and i think i ordered the wrong thing 🙁 it was pretty much giant beef tortellinis in broth with some sour cream on top. other people’s food looked much more appetizing. oh well. i will not be going back. 
on the way back, i went up perhaps the most giant escalator i’ve been on, and the escalators at universal were pretty dang giant. 
now i’m on the way to sleepytime, which i need after today. i’m not sure what’s happening tomorrow after the conference, but i found out that the library of congress is 25 mins away via metro and foot, so i might zip over to check that out either on saturday. we’ll see how things pan out.
OH and i found out my room looks over the washington monument, and it lights up at night! (this is a horrible pic, but oh well.)