Trying to relax

Welcome to Washington, DC. Technically, I'm in Springfield, Va right now, but it's close enough. I'm staying with my aunt for a few days. After my trip to LBI with KA, AI and CE, I went to Avalon, Nj with my friend PC. I stayed at his house for two days and then went to school for newspaper. (I was such a model this weekend, I'm going to be in three or four photos in the orientation magazine.) I took a train from 30th St to Union Station on Tuesday and got mexican food for dinner with my aunt last night. Today we got pedicures and manicures (I'm so ticklish, I'm surprised I survived it) and went swimming.
I love it here and I love the DC area. Georgetown was one of my top choices when I was looking at schools because I love this area so much. Maybe I'll go to school down here after graduation, for either law or grad school.

My parents and sister were visiting colleges in the area so they stopped here today. They took tours at William & Mary and University of Richmond. CR says she liked U of Richmond a lot. We ate crabs tonight and just relaxed.

My parents are leaving tomorrow and my sister and I are staying until Friday. I think I want to go to a museum tomorrow...it's too hot to be outside. I think it got up to 105 degrees today. I'm thinking Smithsonian Institution | National Museum of Natural History, but I'll have to talk to CR she's a little picky.

Tomorrow night we're going to the Nationals game, they're playing the Marlins. My aunt got box seats from her friend, I think it'll be pretty fun.

In other news, relating to London, I'm screwed. I'm an idiot. I submitted my Visa to the New York office without getting a CAS number from Queen Mary, so the Visa office can't accept my Visa until they get a CAS number. The problem with that is that in order to get a CAS number, Queen Mary needs a copy of my passport. I sent my passport to the office in New York with my Visa application. Like I said I'm an idiot.
Luckily, my dad is on top of things and made a copy of my passport already so I'm going to have to do all of that on Friday when I get home. Hopefully Queen Mary will be quick and the Visa office will wait for my CAS number and not refuse my Visa.

Also, I've been talking to my aunt and parents and bad news: I'm only taking 2-3 suitcases to London full of clothes and shoes and that's it. What am I going to do without my million pairs of shoes? This is gonna be rough and I don't even like clothes that much.

Anyway so hopefully I get things figured out with my Visa because that's way more important that clothes and shoes. I'm almost done with my EUSA application for my internship. My first choice was journalism, second law and third was broadcasting. If my Visa gets denied though I won't be doing any of the three. Good thing I procrastinate all the time. So stressful.

Take care,
MB