Memorial Weekend!

Yep, I'm in the Swamp. And let me tell you, D.C. is very swamp-esque. Extraordinarily humid, it's pretty brutal running around in the middle of the afternoon. But with so much to see, there's no way I'm just going to stick around our house!

I'm sure I've talked to most (probably all) of you about my summer plans, but for the sake of consistency, I'll toss out a bit of a recap. I'm out in Washington D.C. with eleven other students from CSB/SJU. We are living together in a row house about two blocks from the Capitol, and we are all interning at various organizations or offices throughout the city. I will be starting an internship in a Senate office on Wednesday morning. I'm not really certain what my job description will be -- just that I'll need to play the professional.

The past day and a half has been jam-packed with a bunch of orientation-like stuff. Had to find a grocery store for food, made a run to Target, and figure out the Metro. Those are all the practical things that had to be done. After that, I started the impractical things, such as a photo scavenger hunt across DC. Highlights of this include:

1. A search for Sarah Palin, who was making unscheduled, unannounced stops at various monuments, memorials, and landmarks across D.C. all day.
2. A conversation with a Secret Service agent outside of the White House, in which he described the weather as being "hot as balls." Never thought I'd hear that one from someone in his position.
3. A delicious (free) pizza dinner.
4. Things like this:

Yeah, I think I'll be enjoying D.C.

What's next?

This.

And the long-awaited return...

... of Evan Howard to blogging!

I'm sitting here at work, watching the State of the Union. And while I've been sitting here, I've decided that it's about time to re-start this guy up.

Now, it would probably be LOGICAL to start back up where I left off, but that's a loooooong time ago, so that's not gonna happen until I've got some notes or something with me. So pretty much, this is gonna be current stuff that's been going on.

This is my second week back on campus, and it's been incredibly busy so far. Apart from having a pretty crazy class schedule, I've been heading up the prep for our mock trial program's first competition of the semester this past weekend. We took two teams down to St. Paul for a tournament at St. Thomas Law School. We had quite a few new people to mock trial, which is really unusual for this time of the year, so I was going into this tournament with realistic expectations, not so much optimistic. In the end, one team placed 11th out of 18, which was pretty satisfying.

That's all I've got, I guess. This is way lamer than I hoped it would be... apologies. Check back later for a more entertaining entry.