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September 28, 2006


busy weekend ahead
posted by soe 1:20 am

I know today is Wednesday. Which means tomorrow is Thursday. But I keep thinking that it will be Friday, which means it’s time to look ahead to the weekend, right?

Friday night, we head to RFK Stadium to see the Nationals take on the Mets. The Mets have been sucking it up recently, while the Nats seem to be on a bit of a tear. My Mets may have managed (eventually!) to clinch the NL East (which was one of those three beautiful things I knew I meant to include last Thursday, but couldn’t think of), but they seem to be concluding the regular season in a bit of a slump. My hope is that the Mets are just getting the rest of the season’s losing out of the way now so that we can enter the postseason ready to rock. I’m looking forward to the game.

Saturday is the National Book Festival. Lots of cool authors are going to be attending, from Doris Kearns Goodwin (a favorite!) to Poet Laureate Donald Hall, from Alexander McCall Smith to Kevin Clash (Elmo), and from Julia Glass to Louis Sachar. Each author has some main stage time — to read, to answer questions, to speak at large — as well as some time put aside to sign books. (It should be noted that poets get the raw end of the deal because unlike the rest of the authors, they are only allotted 30 minutes to sign their works.) So I figure I’ll be spending the day down at the Mall. Maybe I’ll lunch at the American Indian Museum. They have an excellent cafeteria.

Sunday is the farmers’ market, of course. But it also brings the annual Crafty Bastards fair to Adams Morgan. This is a festival sponsored by our alternative news weekly, The City Paper, and encourages the artistic amongst us to create … stuff … and sell it. Everyone there is very creative. But it’s a matter of finding the ones that you go, “Wow! That’s amazing. I wish I could make something similar. But lacking time/commitment/talent, let me give this person $20-$200 of my money instead in exchange for it.” There are plenty of crafters that make you think, “Wow! Why on God’s earth would you make that? And who would give you $20 for it? I’m not sure that I’d take it home even if you gave me $20.” The festival is supplemented by local food vendors and local musical acts. It’ll be a fun day and I’m looking forward to hitting up Woolarina‘s booth to buy some yarn for my Yarn Aboard II pal. I just have to get there before Lolly arrives. Since she is once again hosting Socktoberfest, I’m afraid she’s going to buy up everything I want.

Okay, I admit it. D.C. does offer a wealth of activities within a very constrained amount of space. I won’t have to drive to any of these events and that definitely wouldn’t have been true in Connecticut.

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Have a great time this weekend. I’ll let you know how the Big E turns out.

Comment by Grey Kitten 09.28.06 @ 3:38 am

I am not planning to buy the place out! That is SO not my style. 🙂 Do I really seem like that much of a hoarder? I hope not… Plus, it looks like I won’t be able to get there until the afternoon, so you have all morning! Of course, it would be nice to run into you too… if you see me, would you say hi?

I wish I could get to the Book Festival too, but just can’t make it this year… I have too much going on. Have fun though!

Comment by Lolly 09.28.06 @ 7:05 am

Oh the Crafty Bastards fair sounds so very cool. And fun! Take some pics for those of us deprived of such frivolity :o)

Comment by amanda 09.28.06 @ 1:25 pm

It sounds like you have a great weekend planned!

Thanks for stopping by my site and leaving a comment. I’m looking forward to getting to know you too. And your site will keep reminding me to read the poetry. 🙂

Comment by Debby 09.28.06 @ 4:43 pm