So here is the official weekly update, beginning with SUNDAY (kinda)!:
Jill, Dane and I went for a nice long bike ride along the C & O canal. It was gorgeous. If you want to know more, read the post about Hissing Geese. On Sunday night, Jill, Jess, and I went to see Sex and the City (the movie). It was good. Nothing really too exciting happened... besides that we found the Starbucks on campus that is about 1 block away!
Monday: We had to go to code of conduct training at work. Oh my goodness! It was an hour and a half long given by a guy with a st-st-stu-stutter. Which, normally isn't too bad, but he freaking READ OFF OF THE SLIDES and then he RE-STATED IT not on the slides (or vice-versa, depending on what else it related to). I think the worst part about that was that it is only required for employees of the Senate to get within the first 60 days of working there... but we aren't even going to be here for 60 days. It's only 35 if you count the weekends! Oh well... I survived that (barely).
Tuesday: If anything exciting or important happened, it was all forgotten when J.Lo showed up on our floor of the Hart office building! She had come to talk to Obama... who wasn't in town... but that was pretty much the extent of the excitement. (for more about this, read the post "When J.Lo comes to town")
Wednesday: I got to be the support person for the day... and that meant that I got to hang out up front for a while, which I have to say, is pretty fun. It's a little bit higher pressure (sometimes) but you actually get to interact with consitutents and other people who happen to come by the office. I also got a nice big project for being on support-- we had to look up a bunch of Sen. Bingaman's floor speeches for some big project that someone is doing... lucky for them, I don't know who (jk... it wasn't that bad). Jill helped me with it and we finished it by Friday's COB. I also got another project from my supervisor about Guantanamo Bay... that should be fun. Wednesday was also the half way point of our internship... it really has gone by fast!
Thursday: Robin's family (minus Robin...) came to town, so I got to give them a tour of the Capitol! It was lots of fun. We went out to dinner to Matchbox (again) and this time I got their famous Mini Burgers. Oh my goodness, they were EXCELLENT! So I have officially given 2 tours... but that's okay with me. They are fun to give because it gets you out of the office and into the craziness of things, but then you have to act like you know everything... which is only sometimes true.
Friday!: We had another one of those mandatory lectures, but this one had potential to be exceptionally good: Women of the Senate. It actually was really good, I was just really tired and the lady's voice was really soothing... Right. Anywho. As I said earlier, Jill and I finished that project, which was really nice to get done. We went to lunch at the Capital City Brewing Company, which had really good food-- and we had a really delicious Brownie smothered in ice cream, whipped cream, and chocolate syrup (it was REALLY good.) We headed up to Baltimore for an Orioles game... and they WON... amazingly enough, 9-6! We had some adventures on the way there with trains and tickets and, well, you know... travel drama. But it all worked out and we made it there in back all in one piece!
Saturday: I met up with mi madre's friend, Bridget who used to work at the Smithsonian and now owns her own framing business. She has had an interesting life and has met up with some very interesting people. We went all around, to a bunch of museums (arm museums, mostly, but also the new Native American museum) and then to the sculpture garden, where we got lunch and sat by the fountain and talked. It was really cool to sit and people watch while talking about life. Now Jess, Jill and I are going to head out and maybe get some dinner and hope to avoid a big rainstorm!
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