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Hope everyone had a nice weekend. One of my friends from college came to visit, so we had lots of wacky adventures, including:

• mocking the pathetic White House Christmas Tree (seriously, I didn't think it was possible to be worse than last year, but congratulations, Obamas, you have now presided over the Charlie Browniest White House tree ever),
• visiting the Old Post Office (which is apparently becoming my go-to place to take visitors),
• coveting the First Ladies' clothes at the American History Museum,
• going to see a fun Broadway-parody musical version of A Christmas Carol,
• eating excessive amounts of French food,
• bathing in the nostalgia of the Muppets movie, and
• going to Baltimore to see Noel Coward's Private Lives.

All of which was extremely excellent. Except that tree. God, that awful tree. Even the tourists were making fun of it.

ETA: Recorded here for posterity, the National Christmas Tree:



In other news, I am now officially graduated. (I know I've said that, like, twice now, but this time it's totally over.) I got the results back and I passed my exams, which means I can finally recycle the gigantic stack of papers from all my classes that I've been saving. I thought about tossing them as soon as I handed in my exam, but I figured that would be tempting fate, you know?

Mini-linkspam:

* How drunk can you get at your office Christmas party? This handy guide will tell you!
* Facebook History of the World