Most Wretched Hive of Scum and Villiany

Well, I'm back after a three week hiatus from my last post. Since I last wrote, I've been mainly working downtown at the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), which is an advocacy group for small business. I'm working with the Health Care section of their Federal Public Policy department (if the person in charge of checking to see if NFIB's name is being dragged through the mud is reading this, you only have one guess to figure out who this is...). I've enjoyed work so far. I've had the opportunity to see a Congressional hearing in person and saw Dennis Kucinich tear a Canadian columnist a new one, attend a Bipartisan Policy Center press conference, and have watched multiple hearings online concerning health care reform (I recommend stockpiling splints, antibiotics, and do-it-yourself field surgery kits). The whole big picture interaction between government, advocacy groups has been interesting (at least on the advocacy group side.)

Despite having lived in Northern Virginia most of my life, I have never really had a chance to fully experience DC. Yes, I've used the metro and seen the museums but its different than living in the suburbs. Everything here is so close together and crowded, not to mention the limited hours the stores are open (Not like I have the money anyway). Personally, I enjoy taking the metro to work since it's quite and people ignore the heck out of you (As an afterthought, I'm perfectly fine. While I take the red line to work and back, the crash occured after the metro center stop.). I haven't had a chance to get out and visit the museums and spots like that. I did go out for a bit and caught a National games with Stephen and Marynn last week. the stadium was nice but the team is a little bit subpar to say the least.

I've got a few things coming up and I was planning to either go to a friend's birthday party in the evening or a barbecue. The barbecue is basically filled with TFAS alumni from TFAS programs past. Granted it's an opportunity for me to network but I'm little hesitant to do so. You know shyness and stuf like that. In other news, the Capital Fringe Festival starts in less than two weeks!! Which means I will have gone broke purchasing tickets for various plays and transportation to get to them. From what I can tell the performances are located around the DC convention center, which makes it easier for me to go there. I'm checking my finances to make sure I have money but I might have to cut back on Chinese food (or milk the parental money cow).

T-11 Hours

Dear Supposed Readers,
Tomorrow I start my internship and vote in the Virginia Democratic Primaries. I'm going to start regularly updating weekly instead of daily because I probably won't have much time too. I might even end up posting messages from Mary Ingram's trip to Italy and Europe if I can get away with it.

Today, we had orientation, which basically meant that we sat around listening to people talk and got our ids from the office. I had lunch in the apartment and went out to dinner with one of my roommates. Before dinner I had one of my classes and I really enjoyed. It's the first history/political science class I've had in a long time. I did a dry run of going to the office and got off too early. I then headed back. I still have to find a less painful way to get back, I ended up walking from GWU to Georgetown. After that I didn't do much. I did however share a rather awkward missed connection with a fairly attractive Indian (descent) girl but I was too tired and exhausted from walking all the way from GWU/Foggy Bottom to Georgetown. If I'm lucky, maybe I'll run into her again. And maybe pigs fly.