AND THEN......

LOVE to everyone at home, I MISS YOU SO MUCH!!!!!

Here's the thing, I wasn't sure if I would have time to blog everyday, or even once a week while in DC.  I probably have time to write more than I do, but I'm TOO TIRED!!!! Work is wonderful, challenging, tiring and refreshing all at the same time.  My first full week of my internship has come to an end, and I was not disappointed.  At least once a day, I have been out of the office, bouncing around DC (ok, maybe limping around DC because I think I broke a toe...don't ask).  Usually, I'm on the Hill twice a day.  I won't regal you with tales of everything I did, but the most memorable experience of last week was getting to see Hilary Clinton speak on the Hill! Yea, that's right people ;).  I attended a 2008 Democrats summit on the Senate Side of the Capitol and Hilary was the closing speaker.  I was literally 2 feet away from one of the most influential women of our time.  It was surreal.  

She spoke for about 20 minutes.  To say I was impressed, would not do justice to her eloquence and charisma, especially in person.  As I listened, my brain jumped back and forth from trying to let what she was saying sink in.....to trying to figure out what the secret service agent was saying on his stealth little mic thing behind me, to charting Hilary's progression from First Lady to one of the most talked about people in our country's history.  What I took away from listening to Senator Clinton speak (besides trying to keep my mental ADD under control, ha) was that she is someone who was a viable candidate for the Presidency of the United States, who just happens to be a woman.  She is NOT a woman, who just happens to be a viable candidate for the presidency of the United States....An EXTREMELY important distinction. 

DC is abuzz with McCain's running mate, Sarah Palin.  I'm not going to go there.....NOT HERE, NOT NOW!!!  I could write a book on that ridiculous situation (PLEASE SEE THE NEW VIDEO ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF MY BLOG in regards to Palin, it's truly a 5 minute slice of genius)....You can't get away from the political buzz of this election.  I'm loving every second of it.  Never before have I been so motivated to know every single little detail about this political maelstrom.  I mean, seriously, where else in the world can you live where a homeless person hits on you with the words, "Hey baby, Who are you going to vote for?!!" (This happened to me a block away from the Capitol building.  Normally getting hit on by a guy, slouched over on a bench, sipping on a beverage in an ever-so-inconspicuous brown bag would be extremely off-putting.  But I gotta say, his comment was so unexpected that I laughed right out loud.  It was hilarious.

This probably hasn't been one of my most eloquent posts =) but after the over-stimulating week I had, I refuse to be anywhere near eloquent until 9am Monday morning!  Here are a few pictures I took last weekend of my little jaunt with my roommate, Heather, to see the Washington Monument after I saw the Jim Henson exhibit at the Smithsonian.  The transition from my immersion in "Fraggle Rock" memories to visiting one of the biggest Phallic statues in the world was pretty random....fun, but random. 

A little me "leaning" against the monument

The Lincoln Memorial beyond the Reflecting Pool

Reflecting on our reflections in the Reflecting Pool.... Are you reflecting on us too? ha ;)