The best things in life are free.

...and by that I mean the Smithsonian Museums. They may be in desperate need of funding but they're keeping it free if it kills them. Hopefully with the current economic climate they will have a chance to catch up. Is that how these things work? Money confuses me.

My day started by being befriend by the most pretenious man I ever hope to meet. He's doing a PHD in Shakespeare and is from Toronto. If the rest of Toronto's population is like him, I'm crossing it off my list. He decided to sit with me at breakfast and tell me that I had an attractive neck. Apparently it's unusually long. I think the toss-pot wanted an invitation to go sight seeing with me.  Also today I was given a flower by a homeless man. He wanted to tell me it was a pansy. It was beautiful  and fresh picked and I would have prefered to have had breakfast with him.

Later in the day I feel in love with a 90 year old french woman. Her name is Louise Bourgeois. I saw her exhibition at the Hirshhorn gallery and her sculptures were A-Mazing. 

DC is very pretty. It was built to be photogenic. The only problem I see with it is all the Americans. I don't mean the native DCians, I mean all the others. Americans don't travel much except, it seems, to their nations capital to soak up the patriotism and democracy. They didn't get in the way too much. I saw this: 

And for those of you that forget why this is important to America, let me remind you.

Funny thing is, I'd already formulated that comment when I heard a women say to her child "Forest Gump". Sometimes I wish I wasn't always right.