Things Got Better…Much Better
Posted by Diane Zoellmer on July 31st, 2008
My roommate for the week turned out to be fantastic. We got along great!
I learned so much at the Institute that I have enough “stuff” to post for a month or so.
Discovery Headquarters is incredible. It’s on the red metro line about 30 minutes out of DC in Silver Spring, Maryland which apparently was a pretty sleepy place until Discovery built its headquarters there. When it was built, an agreement was made that they wouldn’t have an employee cafeteria so that people would go out into the neighborhood for lunch. As a result, they have great restaurants surrounding the building. Next week (July 27 – 31) is Shark Week and the whole place was shark crazy. They had a large shark head on one side of the building and a shark tail coming out the other side but they had to take it down because of the traffic problems it caused.
Now they’ve quieted things down to what you see when you’re in the building…everywhere you look. You can even give yourself shark’s teeth – http://www.sharkyourself.com .