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Soooooooooooo....................it's been a long time.....I've officially joined facebook, and the people I REALLY want to connect with won't even say what's up....ah, the sadness caused by online popularity reinforcers...(i.e. SO-AND-SO has 590 friends, even though she only really talks to three of them each day).
A lot has happened over the past few months. I came back from D.C. and started up a group called SSAAPP. I created a board by assigning titles and duties...and as time passed, I created committees, or teams, that would focus on specific stuff...like funding, website, and communications. The group is going well, and the people I am meeting solidify my belief that no matter how many people you meet in college, there are at least 5 more people whose company you'd genuinely enjoy (and not just as another pal to get drunk with...though, those are nice too), but are somehow hidden from you...as every other graduating person seems to passing on wisdom, I still have the summer and fall quarters to go through, so I will not dispense with my acquired knowledge yet.
My relationship is awesome. I've never been with such a chill girl who knows me oh-to-well...and for those of you in long relationships, you can understand the pain of having your significant other know your intentions, even when you try to be sneaky about it...."No, I'm serious, honey, it's totally cool if we watch the Discovery Channel and a program on the wonders of birth...." Not only that, but the girl loves to have a good time and can be classy about it at the same time...all right, enough of this ode to my girlfriend shite...
I was offered an internship by two places. One by a CA state senator and the other by a health care lobbying firm. It took me a few days to figure out what I wanted, but after consulting old D.C. friends, my brother and my parents, I chose the lobbying firm...I think that my true calling is in the government one day...because no matter how much people bitch, the best avenue for big change is in the sphere of national, state or even local government...however, for now, I want to focus on one area and try to get good at it, namely, health care.
So, on the second day of my internship, the boss calls me in and is like, can you give more hours? I explained to her that I needed to work in order to support myself in other ways...she then countered by saying that she could pay me if I wanted to work more hours...my first thought was that this was going to be some stipend crap, so I asked her what her max was...she then said that if I could put in 20 hours a week, she pay me per hour and then offered me a wage that made it nicely into double digits (the first time in my life)....I was like, um, let's see...work in a job getting paid UC wages where I know I don't want to really go into it, or make a private lobbying firm wage and work in a field I want to stay in.....yeah, you can understand why I chose the latter...
Thus, I am now a part time employee for the lobbying firm and we're located right across the State Capitol. On that same second day, she told me to sit in on a meeting with the Majority Assembly Leader and others...man, talk about intimidating...I also find that the Republicans who are most partisan in this state either come from areas where they have never had good experiences with liberals or are from out-of-state...I say this because I watch hearings with the so-called "staunch Republicans" of the state of CA and they don't get all liberal-bashing...they mainly stick to the ideals of less government intrusion and few mandates...maybe the college Republicans could learn a little something from these politicians what the "true" Republican is like (oooooh...touched a nerve, did I?).
Anyways, to top things off, today, I decided to buy a lunchables since I haven't since I was in like the third grade. Mmm. Still as delectable as they were when I was a kid...and to make things even better, I was selected as winner in the box and my prize is to download a song for free from a pre-selected list of songs off of Radio Disney. Does life get any better than this? Dare I say no?
Stay tuned...Peace to all my homies graduating...may you not stumble face-first on your first few steps in the real world...and those of you staying protected by more schooling: you're gonna have to go play outside of the house at some time, so enjoy playing indoors while you still can....
A lot has happened over the past few months. I came back from D.C. and started up a group called SSAAPP. I created a board by assigning titles and duties...and as time passed, I created committees, or teams, that would focus on specific stuff...like funding, website, and communications. The group is going well, and the people I am meeting solidify my belief that no matter how many people you meet in college, there are at least 5 more people whose company you'd genuinely enjoy (and not just as another pal to get drunk with...though, those are nice too), but are somehow hidden from you...as every other graduating person seems to passing on wisdom, I still have the summer and fall quarters to go through, so I will not dispense with my acquired knowledge yet.
My relationship is awesome. I've never been with such a chill girl who knows me oh-to-well...and for those of you in long relationships, you can understand the pain of having your significant other know your intentions, even when you try to be sneaky about it...."No, I'm serious, honey, it's totally cool if we watch the Discovery Channel and a program on the wonders of birth...." Not only that, but the girl loves to have a good time and can be classy about it at the same time...all right, enough of this ode to my girlfriend shite...
I was offered an internship by two places. One by a CA state senator and the other by a health care lobbying firm. It took me a few days to figure out what I wanted, but after consulting old D.C. friends, my brother and my parents, I chose the lobbying firm...I think that my true calling is in the government one day...because no matter how much people bitch, the best avenue for big change is in the sphere of national, state or even local government...however, for now, I want to focus on one area and try to get good at it, namely, health care.
So, on the second day of my internship, the boss calls me in and is like, can you give more hours? I explained to her that I needed to work in order to support myself in other ways...she then countered by saying that she could pay me if I wanted to work more hours...my first thought was that this was going to be some stipend crap, so I asked her what her max was...she then said that if I could put in 20 hours a week, she pay me per hour and then offered me a wage that made it nicely into double digits (the first time in my life)....I was like, um, let's see...work in a job getting paid UC wages where I know I don't want to really go into it, or make a private lobbying firm wage and work in a field I want to stay in.....yeah, you can understand why I chose the latter...
Thus, I am now a part time employee for the lobbying firm and we're located right across the State Capitol. On that same second day, she told me to sit in on a meeting with the Majority Assembly Leader and others...man, talk about intimidating...I also find that the Republicans who are most partisan in this state either come from areas where they have never had good experiences with liberals or are from out-of-state...I say this because I watch hearings with the so-called "staunch Republicans" of the state of CA and they don't get all liberal-bashing...they mainly stick to the ideals of less government intrusion and few mandates...maybe the college Republicans could learn a little something from these politicians what the "true" Republican is like (oooooh...touched a nerve, did I?).
Anyways, to top things off, today, I decided to buy a lunchables since I haven't since I was in like the third grade. Mmm. Still as delectable as they were when I was a kid...and to make things even better, I was selected as winner in the box and my prize is to download a song for free from a pre-selected list of songs off of Radio Disney. Does life get any better than this? Dare I say no?
Stay tuned...Peace to all my homies graduating...may you not stumble face-first on your first few steps in the real world...and those of you staying protected by more schooling: you're gonna have to go play outside of the house at some time, so enjoy playing indoors while you still can....