My blogarrhea has tapered off over the past few weeks due to a number of time constraints, stress, and anxiety. The wikipedia article for graphomania actually suggests blogging may be a form of graphomania. Currently, I’m visiting the University of Maryland tomorrow to take a look at the (cs) grad school and the CLIP (Computational Linguistics and Information Processing) laboratory. So maybe I won’t blog anything for a couple days or maybe not.
Anyhow, here are two views out of my hotel room of illustrious Silver Springs, Maryland. The direct view out is the roof of a Whole Foods.
Ah ha! I have discovered your blog! Yes, that is indeed Downtown Silver Spring. I am glad that they are putting you up there and not at the Kwality Inn in College Park, although that is more convenient. I go to that Whole Foods to buy cheese, as most American grocery stores do not have good cheese selections other than trendy yuppie places.
Hehe yep found me. Anytime someone spells Quality with a Kw, you know that quality has nothing to do with it, so I’m glad too. :) I was wondering why we were so far away given that there were closer places. I walked around earlier with my roomie and found a decent Italian place, so having a good time so far.
Was that the Macaroni Grill?
They put me up at the Quality Inn when I came for my own special Cadillac visit day. It is not THAT bad. I know a prof who commutes from Boston and uses it as an apartment. Hey, it’s right next to campus and it’s got housekeeping and it’s cheap if you buy in bulk. Breakfast not bad too.
We actually have a Marriott on campus but it is full, apparently, as we just tried to put up a large group of visiting faculty there. No go.
Aside from that, Silver Spring is much easier as the other hotels aren’t really walking distance. Or they are maybe for me and you, but not for everyone. Silver Spring’s got teh Metro.
Ah thought you meant it was actually called the “Kwality Inn”. I’m pretty much happy as long as there are no apparent signs of rodents and there is free internet.
The italian place was Olazzo or something like that, over on Georgia Ave.
Having lived in D.C. for two years and sitting in on a UMD linguistics course, should you choose to attend, I can recommend living in the District and commuting via the red line. A fair number of UMD students do that (the hip ones, anyway, hehe).