Not Just an Ordinary Day! (But really...just an ordinary day)

Back to the Office today! Congress is not in session, so it was a lot less busy this morning getting in to work, and most of the offices dress casually when not in session. Leslie and I didn't quite get that memo, but luckily hadn't dressed to the nines anyways. Today we learned how to enter constituent survey responses into the IQ system, and basically did that all day. Woo! Great fun. 

Because it was a fairly slow day, pictures to illustrate my daily commute: 

Drive 5 minutes, get on a bus, take bus for 30 minutes to here: 

The crazy large bus-station at West Falls. This is where we
get off the bus every morning and walk inside to get on the Metro! See how
 we might've gotten on the wrong bus?? There's tons!
(I took this pic from inside through glass windows)

Take crowded Metro for 45 minutes to here: Work for 8 hours. 

Cannon House Office Building 

Walk down escalator and get on Metro, to take to bus, and then finally home at 8pm. 

heckaz long escalator (left side-walking; right side-standing)

We had a nice lunch break, however, in which we went to a speaker/free lunch for interns ('cept they ran out of lunches so that was a bummer), about International Human Rights. We went for 3 reasons: 1. to get free lunch, 2. to hear about international human rights issues, and 3. to listen for any mention of abortion or lack thereof. Lack thereof was what we expected, and if we had stayed the whole time, what I assume we would have heard. It's so ironic and disheartening that social justice-minded individuals can struggle so much with abortion. This is really a topic for a whole separate blog post, but in my understanding, those so passionate about social justice have misplaced compassion when it comes to abortion. They see the women as the minority in need, not the babies inside the womb. Interestingly, the definition of "human rights," according to the speaker today, is that "every person has certain rights by virtue of being a human being." Hmm...personhood, human being, rights. Sounds familiar!

Me and Cory posing by the model Capitol. Cory's another intern we met while
in line for our Staff badges--she's the one who told us about the free lunch!

Anyways, dinner with the Whalens tonight was perhaps the most delicious yet. Salad (I'm getting lots of greens here!), spaghetti with divine meat sauce and a perfectly satisfying slice of Texas Toast (courtesy of Leslie and my trip to Wegmann's this weekend). I worked on a blog post tonight that I will be posting son on AbolishAbortion.com. And that's about it, folks! Goodnight!