in D.C.

I'll get to the wedding posts in a minute, but I'll start by working backward. We arrived back in D.C. on Thursday night after nearly two weeks in Montana. Thankfully, D.C. was kind to us on the first day back. Humidity was at the low end, which made for a beautiful day (it wasn't until yesterday the soul-stifling mugginess returned, but at least we had a couple days to start the acclimation process).
Friday night we also took advantage of D.C.'s summer habit of free events. The National Symphony Orchestra was playing a free evening program outside in the Carter Barron Amphitheater in Rock Creek Park. Concert was good, although the accompanying cicadas were neither on time or in tune.
Saturday we had tickets to see The Decemberists accompanied by the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. I've been playing the Decemberists nearly nonstop on my iPod for the last few months, so it was a show we'd been looking forward to. The symphony gave even more of an epic feel to their tragedy-story songs (which is most of them). A thoroughly enjoyable evening.
It was a much-needed ease into the return to reality after the break. Yesterday the ease was mostly gone; we spent the day in big-box suburban hell (Northern Virginia) to deal with a few wedding-gift exchanges and to use our new gift cards.

Now that the wedding is over, time to deal with the other two items on my list: figuring out how to maximize the space in our apartment and getting a job. Neither seems particularly enticing.