#livingindc

[edit: trains were not in service at the time of any of this red-light-running. but still... not cool. ::shudder::]

Intern watching debates: "I wish I knew who this is speaking so I could quote him!" Older reporter: "It's a senator from New York." Intern: "There are too many of them! How will I figure out which one it is?""

"...Realize that you are among your peers. Even though you are surrounding by people of privilege, you still feel like you’re in the right place. Have your party lose the house and have you’re world flipped upside down. Life here is cyclical. Parties switch. Power shifts. Become jaded with politics. Wonder if you even matter, if anyone’s work even makes a difference. Read a bill that you helped draft. Think you just helped save a tiny piece of the world."