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February 18, 2005
Dispatches from the District: Day One
So, after an 11-hour drive, we have safely arrived at The Mayflower Renaissance Hotel in Washington, D.C. The hotel is very nice and is six blocks from the White House. It is also across the street from ABC's Washington bureau. Upon walking into the lobby, I spied five veteran newspaper men sitting around a table adorned with numerous empty Budweiser bottles. They were discussing the finer points of obtaining and working with interpreters in Fallujah. And this is a WEEKLY paper conference. Immediately, Chattanooga seems incredibly small.
This will be a fun trip...
...especially since the powers-that-be have done extensive and much-needed paving since I last travelled the city's streets.
Tomorrow at noon starts the first day of the AAN East conference, and I'll be spending the bulk of the day in a writing seminar with Jim Stasiowski. It should be pretty informative. The conference runs Friday and Saturday, and I'll post updates/highlights while I'm gone.
I jokingly (though I would like to visit it sometime) suggested that we kick off our trip tomorrow by getting up early and making an uplifting morning visit to the Holocaust Museum (also close by). I doubt we'll be getting up that early, though.
| By colrus | 02:20 AM
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I spent about 7 hours in that museum one time, but then I'm a Holocaust junkie. Wrote a paper deconstructing the architecture as a text..
Posted by: cmwillis at February 18, 2005 11:28 PM
