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So time for another update. Work has been crazy busy this week. To get my full paycheck I still had to put in 36 hours just in four day week while being forced to take a half day on Friday, so on Monday I went back to work after our lecture and worked till 8pm and then Tuesday I worked 12 hours till 8pm again. Luckily the head of my office, Rob Brenner, also works late hours and we wound up being the only two in the office, so when I left at night I would pop in and we would chat for a bit. Hopefully my diligence to get everything done in a short week did not go un noticed. My main projects this week were to write a cabinet level briefing for a Chinese delegation about Waxman-Markey and what its importance is in the international sphere. My second project was to create a list of priority technologies that are created within waxman-markey and the energy bill which is still being marked up, and then justify how I prioritized those based on their importance to permitting. My final project was to read this new study about the impacts of global climate change in the United States and write a summary of the major points. Other then that I did some normal intern work, printing and binding reports, getting stuff mailed out to our contractor, and went to all my meetings about new regulations that I have been following. It was a busy week but I got everything done, put in my 36 hours, and still left at four yesterday, though the administrator released us at 3. It was actually like being in middle school the Friday before April vacation, everyone was so excited to leave and everyone was talking about where they were going. My boss, Anna, is on vacation for the next two weeks and is going to some remote island in the Bahamas....I'm jealous. So that has been work.

I basically have given up on the Washington Center. The program is a great concept, but as someone who got my own internship without their help I feel they are pretty pointless, granted the credits I am getting is what makes it worth it. Everyone that works for the Washington Center is either rude, unhelpful, or doesn’t know the answer to any of your questions. My program advisor is nice but just doesn’t know anything about my internship. She was supposed to do an interview this week but that never happened and now my boss is gone...o well. We has an interesting lecture this week, it was a panel of retired congressmen talking about different issues from health care, education, and Sotomayor's confirmation hearings. I enjoyed it but I could not believe how rude some of the other interns were, by some I mean the 25 sitting behind me that did not stop talking during the entire presentation, and by talking I mean loud and full conversations. The cherry on top of it all was at the end when the moderator said that they were out of time for anymore questions, they all started clapping. I was completely embarrassed for them. I always wonder how people like that succeed. I mean I will discreetly pull out my cell phone and text now and then but these people were just absurd, I really could not even fathom ever being so rude and disrespectful.

Social life is good. Making more friends, some interns, and some people who are working down here. I’m becoming pretty good friends with a girl in my class, Jenny, we’ve gone out a few times and usually have a lot of laughs. I guess I am a relatively social person...who knew, I find that I go out quite a bit whether for dinner or drinks quite a bit...which burning cash is like whoa, o well it makes for a fun summer. For the 4th I got invited to a roof top party by my friend Jimmy so I will probably go to that...hopefully will be fun.

So I think that is about it. I will be home next weekend for a few days since my sister is coming home. Hopeful the rain will disappear so I can get out on the motorcycle for a bit. I hope everyone has a great 4th of July, I do wish I was hanging at the lake instead but o well. By the way I titled this blog entry with the lyrics of one of my favorite not too sharp songs off our new album, mostly because I miss the NTS guys Harrison in particular but everyone else as well....except Scott!