friday night at the senate.

as the weeks pass in d.c. the experience has yet to become routine and i'm still not over the fact that i work here.  wednesday night was class at the u.s. trade representative's office where we talked to a uga alum who now works on trade issues with china. so sweet.  i've gotten to attend a couple hearings/briefings thus far and i love being able to get out of the office for a bit and get a snapshot of what's happening with a certain issue right now.  

i've mastered the art of riding the trains that go underground from the senate office buildings to the capitol and then to the house office buildings.....and it's always cool to look over and see roland burris getting interviewed by some reporter eating up his every word or see john kerry sitting in the train next to you.  tonight after a long week at work i thought all i wanted was to go home, change, and go out on the town.  instead, i went back to the capitol and watched the stimulus debate from the senate gallery.  i'm a huge nerd, but when in rome?  there were a surprising amount of couples......maybe its a good d.c. date night. nothing better to set the mood than listening to john mccain talk about partisan politics and watching john kerry pull up his socks and pop a piece of gum in.  

i'm definitely finding that i like the flow of domestic politics and american government way more than i thought i would and i'm glad i took a job on the hill for this semester.....i could see myself ending up back here someday.  i still have no idea what i want to do or what i'm going to do to get back up here but i'm sure it'll all fall into place.  the cool thing about washington is everyone has a completely different story of how they ended up here and in the end it's really all about who you are. i'm convinced it really is the ugly hollywood.