Well, along with moving to a new apartment, work and doing silly things that have kept me from the TV, I am now on a business trip. For five days, I wander around the convention section of the Gaylord National with a 4″x6″ badge around my neck which keeps getting into my free conference food at meal times. The Gaylord National is in the DC area in the newly named National Harbor in Maryland. Fancy digs.
Last night at the conference was a free night i.e. mercifully unplanned, non-networking evening. My colleague scored tickets to see Chess at Signature Theatre in Arlington, VA. (Fun Theatre Nerd Fact: there’s also a Signature Theatre [Company] in New York!) So car rented, GPS engaged, “One Night in Bangkok” already in a loop in my head. When we arrived at a gas station (since Hertz thought an eighth of a tank was a great way to send tourists off into the night), I spotted across the street…WETA! WETA is the Washington area PBS station. It’s home to the PBS News Hour as well as Washington Week…which makes a lot of sense. And it’s been “the production partner of filmmaker Ken Burns for more than twenty years”! According to Wikipedia!
I almost had my picture taken in front of the Gwen Ifill poster but my friend insisted on the Ken Burns one:
And this one got some looks…mainly because friend was on his back on the sidewalk taking the photo:
What did I learn? Friends are enablers. And you can’t escape PBS!
Photo credit: Skypp Cabanas using my point-and-shoot.
