In case you hadn’t noticed: this weekend has been a bit of bedlam for traveling on the Metro. Lumping together the severing of the Orange/Blue lines at the Foggy Bottom station, several track disruptions and a body found on the Farragut North tracks, a relaxing three-day weekend is not the first notion to come to mind. Unfortunately, those of us already looking forward to the next federal holiday in February, there will be no respite as Metro plans to close the Federal Triangle and Smithsonian stations for similar maintenance — all part of an “aggressive maintenance” schedule for 2011. Metro’s anger management issues aside, sounds like we should plan to spend a good chuck of our extra days off riding the rails.

>> Washingtonians aren’t usually the nervous type, except when it comes to snow and UFOs, but for those of you wondering about the noises of a possible airstrike overhead, NORAD has been conducting nighttime flight tests in the area. Not that it should matter since you should be struck in an underground Metrorail station anyways.

>> Usually saving a few bucks on park entry doesn’t scream “let’s get married,” but for NBC4, why the hell not break out that wedding dress that’s been gathering dust in the back of your closet? Alternatively, for the tragically single among us content with hiking alone, Great Falls and other national parks are waving all park fees to the public this holiday weekend. Don’t worry, with four other fee holidays this year, there’s plenty of time to scrounge up an adequate spouse.

>> Apparently Frederick County hates cupcakes?