Reverse, reverse!

The residents of 510 C just witnessed a guy drive through Stanton Park and crash into the playground. He was extremely intoxicated...both alcohol and prescription drugs...and a few of the guys from my house decided they needed to go chat with him. Luke was going to drive him to the Metro, that is until he saw all of the pills in the car. For being told there are so many police on The Hill, we expected the response time to be impeccable. However, the first police car we saw actually turned away from the park instead of responding to the accident. About five minutes after we heard the loud noise, 8 police cars and one police van reported to the scene. No sirens were involved, but the lights were rolling and Miranda Meyer would have loved to witness this!

The driver could barely walk over to the police car and it took several attempts to get him in the backseat. And yes, about half of our house congregated on our front steps to take photos and be nosy. Oh, the city life!

If the title of this blog doesn't make sense yet, we are recapping my day in reverse order. After work tonight, Grace, Mercedes and I attended a forum on women in politics at the Sewall Belmont House, where the original feminist movement began. I was very surprised when there were approximately 100 people in attendance. We had free hors devours and wine, very classy, and then listened to three women elected officials tell about their political careers. A few audience members asked some very tough questions, and fortunately for the panelists, we ran out of time before everyone got their turn with the microphone. It was a unique experience, and I hope to go back to Sewall Belmont to take in the rest of the house.

Today was my least productive day of work. Joe and I finally got caught up on all of the filing (some of which was from 2003), which was a good feeling. We also escorted the president of UNI and another UNI professor to Longworth, one of the House buildings. This was my first time to the House side, and only Joe's second, so we got lost. We probably weren't the best guides, but I did provide the president with quality conversation along the way. He enjoyed hearing about the hole in the ceiling above my shower--of which they now taped a garbage bag over so the ceiling would stop falling into our shower.

Other highlights from work included cruising by Barack's office, reading the DC papers (ie Politico, Roll Call, etc.) for the first time, making friends with Stuart, finally obtaining a statistic I've been tracking down for several days, chatting with my chum (our chief of staff), visiting Kristine in Senator Nelson's office, and using my ID to get into the Appropriations Committee Room and signing off for some important documents. Although it sounds like a relatively good day, these things were few and far between.

This morning, we woke up to a messy bathroom again. And when the girls from upstairs were showering, we had streams of water coming into the shower, as opposed to a little bit of leaking. In order to calm myself for another day at the office, I listened to Barack's victory speech from yesterday's Potomac/Chesapeake Primaries. It was very uplifting.

ps...I got to wear my boots to work for the first time, and someone on the street said "Hey, nice boots!" Good stuff :)