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So I'm in Washington DC for Spring Break, and ironically, I leave tommrrow, and I'm just now posting. But it's okay.

Liz and I have been tromping around the outsides of the city, exploring, checking out the campus, having fun.

We generally get in by eight or nine o'clock, exhausted from having walked different suburbs of Washington. Yesterday we went to Silver Spring, where I found amazing 30-40s tawdry paperback novels. You know the kind I mean, with a seductive looking woman and a leering man? Pulp fiction is what they're called now, but they're not exactly that.

Here, have an example:

In any case, I found five of those little lovelies, but I only bought four of them, because one was too expensive.

Today I finally manage to get some work done at U of Maryland's gorgeous library. Then tonight, Liz is going to show me how to dry paint with acrylic. It should be interesting.

Oops, I have exactly ten minutes to catch a bus!

So I made As and Bs with one C, again. I'll be working and taking classes this summer, but I have two free weeks in August, and I'm desperate to hit Europe again.

I toyed with the idea of spending a week in England, but I've been there twice already. Maybe Scotland, possibly Ireland again.

I really want to hit the South of France, but the problem with that is my French is barely passable.

I did consider hitting every ancient temple in Greece and Rome, but again, language barriers, and let's face it, I almost had a sunstroke the last time I was in Italy--and that was only July.

I'll make about 1700 this summer, all things considered, and I'm wondering if it's possible to take a grand and go to Europe for one week.

I've already hit up