I've got a brand new pair of roller skates

Well good morning Readers of the Blog. I am just sitting around relishing my shiny new apartment like I've been doing for the past week. Rachel, Sam, and I moved into the Meridian at Courthouse Crossings last Saturday with a little (well, more than a little) help from a handful of family and friends--in 4 hours! It was the easiest moving experience of my life. I've never had that many people help me move before. I am soooo grateful that I /we have people here who are so willing to give us a hand.

I am also grateful for the FREE futon and bar stools we obtained on moving day. Hilariously great. Someone saw the bar stools in a dumpster while looking out our windows (of which we have millions--windows, not dumpsters) so my cousin Robbie and Rachel and Rachel's cousin Todd went dumpster diving to get them! Then, the guy we let use the freight elevator to get his new couch to his apartment as we were moving in needed to get rid of his old futon and we immediately volunteered. So we already have furniture!

Now we just need a housewarming party, scheduled for the coming Saturday. Be there or be...really sad and left out.

In other news, my littlest sister Abby only has to have her braces on for four more months (she's way excited about that) and Erin is perhaps getting a boyfriend in the near future (she's way excited about that)! (And I am way excited for them!)

The excitement of my life this weekend, aside from the new apartment excitement, centered around my visit to the Library of Congress and my new Library of Congress card! I can go to the reading room now. And be cool. And be awesome. And solve the riddles on the back of the Declaration of Independence...wait, just kidding.

Lark 1 and Lark 2

Hello, hello, and welcome back to my life...as it were. It's been a while, I know. Since my wonderful Christmas at home, I've been busy reconnecting with social life in DC, finding a new place to live (Meridian at Courthouse), and fighting with my landlord roommates about how to give a month's notice (I don't want to think about it anymore), so things have been a little hectic.

So today I'll chose a story that isn't completely stressful to retell: I participated in a study at NIH last week, which was pretty cool. They took pictures of my brain! and made me take memory tests and personality tests and do some really boring stuff. But it's all in the name of science, right? (And in the name of the $350 they'll be sending me in 7-10 business days.) They also took my blood to do genetic testing (anonymously), which scares me a little because I envision some mad scientist using my genes for evil instead of good, and making another me someday. Not that another Lark in this world would be anything but fortunate and wonderful...but it would definitely throw me for a loop. I'm still getting over the fact that they gave me an MRI to see what's happening in my brain and half the time I don't even know what's going on in there!

This week is going to be busy, too, (we're planning to move in to Meridian on Saturday) and right now I'm actually supposed to be getting ready to go cat-sit at Rachel's cousin's house for the evening, so I'm going to wrap this up a little short, I suppose. I know you are disappointed, but maybe next time I'll have more time to expound on the mundane details of my life that I know everyone's so thrilled to hear about. :-)

Happy MLK Day, kids. I'll be in the office since we don't get the day off, but if I can leave early, I may go see the Emanicpation Proclamation at the National Archives!! Nifty, this city.