Thank you for being open

Okay, so some of you feel like my blog has not discussed tomatoes enough. Fine. I give in. You want a story about the archives? Okay.

Today I get done doing some work at the German Historical Institute at 3:30. I stop by the hostel and drop off my bag (my hostel is only 5 blocks away). Then I decide to walk down to the Library of Congress to get a readers card (a card you have to apply for before you can go into the reading room) so that I can save myself 15 minutes of research time when I get to the library either tomorrow or Thursday. Sounds like a good plan, yes?

I walk 45 minutes to go to the Library of Congress. They are supposed to be open until 5. This is actually when they said they'd be there in an email they sent me. I arrived at 4:45. But, despite what they told me, they apparently close at 4 on Tuesdays. So, I walked 45 minutes home.

Thank you for being open, LOC.