OMFG!!!
Well, the days up here are going to be substantially better now, I imagine! I now have internet access in my dorm room, slow though it may be (it's dial-up). It took people on both coasts and in the midwest to set it up, but now I am laying in bed on instant messenger with Facebook and MySpace and I can do whatever I want! And I have fanfics again!!! Oh fanfics!!! How I've missed that drivel! I can't even believe how wonderful it is to have internet again. I <3 technology!
Anyway, that is definitely the highlight of my day so far. I woke up, went to Pete's Diner for breakfast with three other girls -- it's where we go for breakfast pretty much every day, though now I have Cheerios and milk and want to start eating those instead. It's run by these Asian women and the food isn't particularly good. But it's easy and on the way to work. I think we're going there tomorrow morning for a pancake breakfast...though I may just lock myself in my room all day tomorrow and sit on the computer -- would that be considered antisocial?
After that, we went to Six Flags. We left at 9:50 and got into the park at 11:15. It's not that it takes a long time to get there. No, half an hour of that was spent sitting at the intersection outside of the park trying to turn in. It wasn't even that crowded, it just took a ridiculous amount of time getting in. Six Flags was fun I suppose. I like roller coasters, they're fun, but amusement parks as a whole, with the definite exception of Disney World, just aren't that fun. And they're RIDICULOUSLY expensive. We got back here around 5 or so and I walked with Chelsea over to get a phone cord so that I could get internet and we stopped at Cosi to get salads. It was AMAZING. I had a Bombay salad, which had tandoori chicken in it and it was just really good. It's apparently a chain and I think we should get one in St. Louis. They have really good bread and lots of healthy but good choices -- salads, sandwiches, soups, etc.. And then we did laundry and I cleaned up my room (room inspections are on Monday) and now I'm on the computer!!! With internet!!!
Yesterday was a very lopsided day. My morning was extremely busy because I was doing votes. There were 24 votes yesterday morning. I had to print them all off and distribute them around the House floor. The only interaction I had with Russ yesterday was a shared look of "This is pure insanity." Because it was, it was absolutely crazy. They were all on the floor doing 2 minute votes and they couldn't leave the chamber or they'd miss the next vote. There was one point that one of the Congressmen (not sure who..) moved to seal the chamber. It was turned down of course, but still hilarious.
But after that, nothing. There were a couple more votes that night, but nothing crazy. It was a lot of sitting around. A LOT. That's what I'm not enjoying about this. I don't handle boring or mindless well. And with a few exceptions, pretty much all we do is boring and mindless. And, honestly, everything we do could be handled either through e-mail or just by interns. We serve ceremonial purposes I suppose, and I'm extremely glad to have the opportunity, be able to serve the Congress, blah blah blah.. But still. I'm not a big fan of things that are ineffective and don't make sense. And using 16 and 17 year olds are glorified carrier pigeons is both of those things.
Not a whole lot after that yesterday. We got Subway and came back to the dorms and watched Breakfast at Tiffany's. I've established that though I love Audrey Hepburn, I really don't like that movie. I don't care about any of the characters, except possibly the cat. And the plot is very...random. To each their own I suppose.
Well, I'm hanging out in my dorm for the night. On the internet!!!
Now if you see me on AIM, I probably am actually there! So IM me! :-D
Anyway, that is definitely the highlight of my day so far. I woke up, went to Pete's Diner for breakfast with three other girls -- it's where we go for breakfast pretty much every day, though now I have Cheerios and milk and want to start eating those instead. It's run by these Asian women and the food isn't particularly good. But it's easy and on the way to work. I think we're going there tomorrow morning for a pancake breakfast...though I may just lock myself in my room all day tomorrow and sit on the computer -- would that be considered antisocial?
After that, we went to Six Flags. We left at 9:50 and got into the park at 11:15. It's not that it takes a long time to get there. No, half an hour of that was spent sitting at the intersection outside of the park trying to turn in. It wasn't even that crowded, it just took a ridiculous amount of time getting in. Six Flags was fun I suppose. I like roller coasters, they're fun, but amusement parks as a whole, with the definite exception of Disney World, just aren't that fun. And they're RIDICULOUSLY expensive. We got back here around 5 or so and I walked with Chelsea over to get a phone cord so that I could get internet and we stopped at Cosi to get salads. It was AMAZING. I had a Bombay salad, which had tandoori chicken in it and it was just really good. It's apparently a chain and I think we should get one in St. Louis. They have really good bread and lots of healthy but good choices -- salads, sandwiches, soups, etc.. And then we did laundry and I cleaned up my room (room inspections are on Monday) and now I'm on the computer!!! With internet!!!
Yesterday was a very lopsided day. My morning was extremely busy because I was doing votes. There were 24 votes yesterday morning. I had to print them all off and distribute them around the House floor. The only interaction I had with Russ yesterday was a shared look of "This is pure insanity." Because it was, it was absolutely crazy. They were all on the floor doing 2 minute votes and they couldn't leave the chamber or they'd miss the next vote. There was one point that one of the Congressmen (not sure who..) moved to seal the chamber. It was turned down of course, but still hilarious.
But after that, nothing. There were a couple more votes that night, but nothing crazy. It was a lot of sitting around. A LOT. That's what I'm not enjoying about this. I don't handle boring or mindless well. And with a few exceptions, pretty much all we do is boring and mindless. And, honestly, everything we do could be handled either through e-mail or just by interns. We serve ceremonial purposes I suppose, and I'm extremely glad to have the opportunity, be able to serve the Congress, blah blah blah.. But still. I'm not a big fan of things that are ineffective and don't make sense. And using 16 and 17 year olds are glorified carrier pigeons is both of those things.
Not a whole lot after that yesterday. We got Subway and came back to the dorms and watched Breakfast at Tiffany's. I've established that though I love Audrey Hepburn, I really don't like that movie. I don't care about any of the characters, except possibly the cat. And the plot is very...random. To each their own I suppose.
Well, I'm hanging out in my dorm for the night. On the internet!!!
Now if you see me on AIM, I probably am actually there! So IM me! :-D