recess vs. session.....the ongoing battle.

so of the many ups and downs of working on the Hill comes the love/hate relationship i have with being in session.  while it's much more interesting to watch on CSPAN and the floor of the House and Senate, it's much worse for staffers.  mainly for interns who have to listen to constituents call and complain about things they don't understand.  i'm all for democracy and being able to petition your government, but my gosh people do some research before you call your congressman's office and demand to know about bill X which doesn't exist/is not on the topic you thought it was on/has already been passed/never made it out of committee.  i've never heard so many people so passionate about things that aren't remotely true.  also, to all you readers out there....i know most of you are in college and/or adults but if you are, know someone, or have a child that is in high school and is about to take american government please make them pay attention and get an A...and retain the information before they call their congressman's office. it's really not that hard. 

anyway, i'm stepping off my soapbox.  the past couple weeks have been busy but great.  i've gotten to take on a lot more projects that are interesting and challenging at the same time and have been able to catch a few briefings/hearings along the way.  i have also added Capitol Tour Guide to my resume as my tour groups have not been disappointed yet.....you should all come visit, i'll give you the tour of your life.  the DC Dawgs alumni group (they're the largest outside of atlanta....go dawgs) are an amazingly nice group of young professionals who threw us a dinner last week and we had a great time getting to talk to them about their jobs and hang out and of course, talk about UGA football and how much we all love/miss athens.  a good time was had by all.  we also found out we'll be going on a white house tour in march; so after weeks of trying to schedule them for other people i get to go to the White House....i'll send obama all of your regards.  

this weekend i'm buckling down and finally doing some serious work on a research paper that i've neglected for the past 6 weeks.  it's crazy to think we're already half-way through our program.  while some days it feels like i've been here for years i know i won't be ready to leave come the end of April.  thanks for reading and i promise i'll try and post more! 

much love.