The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.

H.I.Kahn

While I am getting used to my internship I have not fully adapted to a very formal system of doing reports compared to the norm of papers/reports for school. We are using a very formal somewhat simplified execution of filing reports. Simplified yet on steroids at the same time-if that makes sense. I have also started a fund for new clothes-specifically for school(these are the measures an unpaid intern has to resort to-I'm due for some new kicks)..

*I hope my old professors read this*

While in D.C. I have fallen in LOVE with one of the greatest architects of the earliest twentieth century-"the last great practicer of Beaux-Artes classicism", as his biography declares, and I learned very little about him or his work before being in D.C. -John Russell Pope. I am a huge fan, and have made it my personal mission to search out his work here and experience it. Below are his national Gallery building and his National City Christian Church. Both are breath

taking.

Finally, I must warn everyone who is venturing to the District of Columbia, and at first it was rather upsetting-THE BAD NEWS: The reflecting pool in front of the Lincoln memorial is under construction. THE GOOD NEWS: It's being repaired and will no longer be brown and disgusting like it had gotten to be at the end of the twentieth century, while a new drainage system is in the works(which will also purify the water) it looks like this.

When it is done this fall. It will be pristine an reflect better(literally haha) the monuments and values we have for our national mall.