Current mood:

amused

i am in love
Honestly, I have fallen head over heels in love with Washington DC. Isn't it strange to be in love with a city? Maybe....but I'm fine with that.

I've visited this city before but this experience is different. I've only been here for 2 weeks but it feels like 3 years...in a good way. If I could ship my boyfriend and my dog up here, I probably wouldn't go back to Tulsa. Who cares if I'm 2/3 of the way through law school? :)

While I love it here, it's been quite an adjustment. For example, I take public transportation everywhere (which is appropriate since I'm working for a committee on the environment). The Metro system is fantastic....most of the time. I've figured out that people exaggerate about how close things are to the metro stop. "Metro accessible" means that it's within a mile of a metro. I know this now. I wish I had known it before so I wouldn't have arrived so late (and sweaty) to functions. My trip to Target last week turned into a day-long adventure!

However, even walking around in dress shoes is worth it to work where I work. I have learned WAY more about politics in one week than I learned in 4 years of reading about it. This is completely different than what I'm used to when I worked for campaigns. I can't think of a short story to share right now about the actual work but guess who I had lunch with the other day? Influential senator? Future President? No.....not yet. But I did have lunch with the actor Ryan Gossling (from The Notebook, Fracture).

That's enough for now...I'm off to the zoo (oh, by the way, since I live 20 feet from the national zoo, I go there all the time. the panda is my pet now).