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It's been six months since one single word has passed between us.
There are days when I sit down at my desk in the little office that overlooks K Street and I'm pretty sure that half the reason why I took this summer's crazy challenge was to prove to myself that I am not the stupid piece of crap that you believe me to be. Don't get me wrong, I took ( Read more... ) -
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I thought about calling you when I got off the plane
Every time I see the city through the clouds, I get that way
Call me crazy for missing you like this
But I do.
I would update in ecstacy about all the wonderful things happening in my life...And there are wonderful things happening.
But for the past 5 working days I have gone to the office at 9 AM and ( Read more... ) -
Because I like to be honest with myself.
And because blind loyalty has never been my thing.
“What political conservatives and on-the-ground Republicans must understand at this point is that they are not breaking with the White House on immigration. They are not resisting, fighting and thereby setting down a historical marker--'At this point the break became final.; That's not what's ( Read more... ) -
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When I saw this story it made me so sick inside that I nearly cried.
A seventy-six year-old Romanian Jewish professor who survived the Holocaust only to be taken down by a madman's bullet - on the day of Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Martyrs' Remembrance Day.
He acted as a human shield for his students, standing in a doorway and blocking the bullets with ( Read more... ) -
"I thanked him and there were some very specific orifices in which I was told to shove my thanks..."
"...He told me, 'Just pay it forward.'"
This evening, I got out of what would have been a $45 parking ticket simply by saying "I'm sorry."
The nice, faith-in-the-basic-decency-of-people-restoring thing about this is that I was not trying to get out of my ticket. I parked in the Farrell circle and went upstairs for a minute and when I came back down ( Read more... ) -
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It's a good thing the whiteout that I drove through yesterday on the Turnpike didn't follow me all the way home. So far this year TWO congressional hearings on global warming have been cancelled for snow. If this happens once more Al Gore may actually off himself.
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The Summer Plans
So I wanted to find a clever way to ease into sharing this delicious bit of news, but I am WAY TOO EXCITED to waste time on things like subtlety and literary devices.
I think by now I’ve told all the half the planet that might actually care that I am interning this summer with an excellently excellent grassroots organization ( Read more... ) -
I think maybe I died and someone forgot to tell me.
I had my phone interview this afternoon at 4:30 PM with Students for Saving Social Security. I worked really hard to be impressive. I talked about writing for the Setonian, and learning the ropes of College Republicans, and how I know what I believe so now I need to learn how to translate it into activism. The person I spoke to was the national ( Read more... ) -
*pees with joy*
"Dear Megan,
Congratulations! You have passed our first round of applicants. We now would like to arrange an interview via phone for the summer internship position. Please email me back with a time next week that will work for you. Thanks!
-Mark Harris
National Director, Students for Saving Social Security
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"I shot a man in Reno/ Just to watch him die...."
My dear, sweet boss, the always classy and forever amazing Cynthia Boland, jailed me today for Habitat for Humanity's Jail-n-Bail fundraiser - wherein once you've been locked up in the Solarium you have to solicit ten dollars in donations from passersby in order to to "post bail."
I apologize to anyone who may have been within earshot of my soulful ( Read more... )