Lobbying and Halloween Costumes

Work has been work thus far this week. I've had a lot of letters to write, and that has kept me pretty busy. I don't remember if I had already mentioned that I got the girl scout cookies I had ordered a couple weeks back earlier this week, and it would be too much work to check so I'm mentioning it here. They have been good and are almost gone now. Also, I was amazed by how quickly remodeling work gets done on the hill. All of the work in the office has been completed. In fact, it had been completed by the middle of the day on Tuesday. That led to the other intern and I having to help with the reorganizing most of the morning and running lots of stuff up to the "cage," our upstars storage area. The only other thing really worth reporting from work this week was a call I took yesterday. It started off pretty normal, a woman voicing her opinion against the public option. When I tried to get her name to log the call, she wouldn't give it to me because she didn't want any hit men coming after her. Despite my best efforts to assure her that we were not in the hit man business, she insisted that that is how Obama works and she didn't want anything to do with it. Needless to say, I was shocked.

Today, we had a policy visit to a lobbying firm in the morning. It was pretty tame and not really anything I hadn't heard before or figured out from working in a congressional office. After the visit, the guys an I walked through Chinatown to Union Station to get some breakfast. Unfortunately, we got there a little after 11, which was after breakfast had ended at the restaurants there. Fortunately, as we went down into the food court, we were given samples of the best chicken salad sandwiches I have ever tasted. Even better, they came with free gelato. All in all, it was a pretty good lunch. After class in the afternoon, during which we discussed the differences between liberal and conservative ideologies and liberal and conservative politics, we went to the halloween store. While there, I found an actual Gryffindor tie, which completes my Neville Longbottom costume. I stopped at the grocery store on the way home and then got a Philly cheesesteak from a restaurant around the corner. Now we're watching the world series (waiting for the office). It should be a pretty big weekend with Halloween, so I'm looking forward to that.

Later,
Jes