Tonight Nelda [?], Ashley [?]and I are going to dinner with Kenny [?], who is sort of a boss-ish person. He lives in Philly but travels a lot and is in DC for a while I guess. He's really nice. very enthusiastic. We're eating at a place called Bullfeathers, near the Hill. It looks pretty cute.

Today I had a lot to do and, astonishingly, a lot of it got done. (!!!) First thing in the morning we had a little meeting to talk about what things we wanted to get done by the end of the week. Here's the eve and Ashley list:

--finish the Illinois and Virginia state profiles

--set up appointments with our Congresspeople

--create listings of youth organizations we want to be outreach targets

--get a good start on ten to twenty state profiles each (gah!)

--work on a youth-related segment to add to the poilcy position the organizations are sending to the presidential candidate (organizations often do this-- they tell candidates which things they think should receive support)

--continue gathering Title IV stories (Title IV of No Child Left Behind has a service learning provision and we want personal service-learning success stories related to that-- though God knows I hate NCLB)

--I personally have to gather a committee of people from SEANet to reccommend changes to their website in preparation for making those changes

Then we had this meeting with about a dozen other young interns who are doing similar work, just to network and see what other people are up to and talk about maybe hanging out sometime. Then we came back here and tried pitifully to put a dent in all that stuff. The major problem was that Bridget, our network chick/webmaster/general computer person, was in, as she is every Wednesday, meaning we were short a computer. Not good.

I have a hangnail. Other than that my day was good, since I finished a whole bunch of stuff and can feel my skills growing by the second. The only bad thing was that one of the times it was my turn to not have the computer, Shanti was on the phone with one of her friends for like fifteen minutes talking about some guy really loudly and she had this really goofball laugh, and compounded with the frustration of not having a computer and mental exertion of doing whatever I was doing, plus the fact that I needed some documents from her and couldn't talk to her while she was all absorbed in her conversation because she was distracted and kept giving me the wrong stuff anyway.

Sorry, I made that sound way worse than it was.

I think we're leaving to go to dinner now. Later I'll probably fill you in on last night's drama surrounding Ashley's cell phone. In the meantime, here are pictures from our scavenger hunt yesterday.

The elevators to the subway are crazy long:

Ashley and I in front of the House:

That's all. Oh yes, Ashley and I get along better every day and I really like her.