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 In honor of Easter, this morning I scrambled myself some eggs, and later in the day I retweeted the Calvin & Hobbes strip about Easter Island.  It's kind of strange that I was reminded so many times it was Easter today; I don't remember if I remembered it at all last year, now that we are no longer able to go to Oatlands.
Instead today I went into DC to enjoy the Cherry Blossom Festival, even though thanks to the long winter the trees themselves haven't bloomed yet.  I ended up attending the Japanese Stone Lantern Lighting Ceremony, where a selected young exchange student from Japan dubbed a Cherry Blossom Princess(there were a number of exchange student princesses from America as well) lit a lantern that has stood at one end of the Tidal Basin since 1954 as a symbol of friendship between the U.S. and Japan.  There was a good deal of musical entertainment, including a choirthat sang America the Beautiful in English and If You're Happy and You Know It in Japanse as well as the Sakura, a koto ensemble that did a much better instrumental version of the Sakura, and a husband and wife drumming pair that were the best of all.  Most of the speeches were pretty short, though the Japanese Ambassador Kenichiro Sasae gave a good keynote.  I took enough photos I may post a couple on DeviantArt at some point, including a couple of the budding trees, and got a bit sunburnt.
Tonight I also finally performed my first clean run-through of Comes and Goes, though it was a more hesitant one than I'd like.  It gives me hope that maybe by next weekend I might actually be able to pull this thing off.