Go Home Already: Take it All In

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• Roland Burris is expected to be sworn in to the U.S. Senate later this week, despite the stench of eau de Blago still lingering all over him.
• Worried about the Inauguration causing a lot of problems for the city? The Examiner reminds us that the annual March for Life is happening just two days after, causing the desire to barricade ourselves at home for the rest of the month to intensify.
• Late Night Shots is co-hosting the Georgetown Inaugural Ball. We were just as surprised to hear they weren't all running out of town for the week as you were.
• Ikea is going to put a mock Oval Office in Union Station and send a fake motorcade throughout the city. You know, because this all isn't silly enough already.
• Via SWDC Blog, four finalists have been chosen to design a national memorial to President Dwight D. Eisenhower just off the National Mall on Maryland Avenue in Southwest.
• Looks like the former Speed Wash in Mt. Pleasant will return as a laundromat once again, via The 42.
• Frozen Tropics has photos of the fire that gutted Rose's Dream on H Street NE.
• Bloomingdale (for now) notices an uptick in the number of graffiti tags popping up on vacant buildings in the Bloomingdale and Eckington neighborhoods.