the other trees

mom will be here tomorrow. it's great, but this weekend will be so cold. and may have mentioned before, but it'll be none stop running around. finally talked to my girl for a long time on the phone. we hardly ever talk these days. this is the last week before heading to recess for a couple weeks. only downside is that it'll mean less hearings, mainly less senators to check off my list. right now i still have like 42 to get to. don't think that'll be happening. the lovely miss amber left today on her trek to taiwan i think. amber is my la over health and education. she's been on the hill for years and has known the boss since close to the beginning. a very lovely 35 year old single woman, who is pretty much the funniest woman in the office. can't understand why she is still single and i imagine she can't either. easily one of the top dressers.

did a section last night on the games, and granted it was harder than usual, but i only got less than half correct. very less than half. last night rain was dumping down on the way home. had to share my umbrella with mike, meaning i got soaked. glad to share though. today it's freezing out and will be a high of 49. good news i suppose for my boarding prospects. the M stinks like ass today. i'm sitting and there are peeps standing all around me, and stank is in the air. it's not pleasant. was really excited because i thought i had snapped a pic of pamela anderson, but in my pic her tribal/barbed wire gayness is on her right arm. every picture online has pam's on her left. slight disappointment.

alison starling, obviously a fake news caster name. and you can tell that her cute little button nose has been carved here and there. very good job though. abc 7 good morning washington. i didn't get anything yet for my mom's birthday (the 19th), but i figure this trip is my gift to her. not like i'm paying for anything, but without me she wouldn't be out here. that's a gift enough right?

i'm so used to this life. trains, suits, shoe horns and trees, x-ray machines, hearings, police, blackberries. this is my life, and i love it. except i don't have a blackberry. but i could.

in a massive committee room over in the hart building. the house just voted down the conference report to the labor hhs bill. this hearing is one of the better ones i've been to. they are actually going over a number of bills and deciding if they should continue onto the floor. a bunch of nominations. yesterday was my first markup hearing. sweet! boxer is going up against chairman stevens. and boxer killed him. it was about adding a new chemical to antifreeze to make it less toxic. it's still gonna go to the floor though.
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someone said to me today, "forgive me, i'm polish." thought that was kind of funny. lot's of things come to mind when i hear that.

jennifer & james scarbrough, children of -> janet moore, daughter of -> fred & dortha moore, sister of -> dorene hert, mother of -> becky hert, mother of -> me

eighteen new voice messages. my bad. mom is on her way home now. we went to rohoboth beach, delaware on sunday and got to see the atlantic. went to the white house on saturday, arlington later that afternoon, and ate at lots of wonderful places. it's thanksgiving week now full of your favorite trimmings, like five o'clock days, business casual dress, an even less work ethic, and two much needed days off. still deciding what to do. it's pretty cold and wet these days, so snowboarding is definitely a possibility. phili and atlantic city are what i'd really like to do. who knows when i'd ever come back for the hard rocks there. and finally part of me just wants to stay home and chill all weekend. i actually wrote 'kill all weekend,' which is what i would really be doing. been playing metal of honor each night and i can't get enough of it. that also means i don't get enough lsat either. i can probably get another two exams done before the real one. that would be next week i believe.

i'm starting to think that the world of the legislative branch is much more exciting and possibly more interesting than law in general. can't say for sure since i've never been part of the law.

conversation of the week: "so are you going home for thanksgiving?" "no, i think i'm going to go to philadelphia or atlantic city for a few days. kim will be with her family in colorado." "oh man, i feel sooo sorry for you. you must be so sad." of course it's sad you retards. and you only make it worse when you say stupid shit like that. do you see me saying how sorry i feel for your crappy lives? please just don't open your mouth.