The wheels on the bike go round and round
Do you know what a hundred racing bikes sound like? I do now. While wandering around Crystal City today looking for food, I stumbled right into the middle of the Air Force Cycling Classic. I want to make some comparison to cicadas or a buzzing old incandescent lightbulb, but the truth is that nothing really [...]
i can haz byline?
Here it is, ladies and gents: my first Washington Post byline. (I think that’s an acceptable substitute for my daily photo.) I’ll be honest: I feel like I contributed very, very little to this in the end. But it in itself was far more of a learning experience than I ever expected to have my first [...]
Veni, vidi, vici
If it’s not obvious yet, I’m absolutely thrilled to be here. But when the adrenaline wears off, the situation I’m in is an incredibly unforgiving one. My family’s two thousand miles away. I just worked a 13-hour day my fourth day on the job after three hours of sleep the night before. My first project [...]
The grindstone I love
(The exclamatory one-word titles are getting more difficult and more forced, so I’m bidding them adieu. :-p) Today was more of yesterday, arriving early to work on the interactive I thought would be due today. (Though I did manage to grab a drink — a Sierra Nevada — with my fellow interns at an appropriately, [...]
Time!
Today was all about time, in more ways than one. The first thing we did was sit in on the morning budget meeting. (Though “stand in” would be a more appropriate phrase, as there weren’t nearly enough chairs.) The speed and keenness with which stories were analyzed, even at a broad level, was beautiful to [...]
Internship!
Today was the very first day of my internship at the Washington Post. It’s incredibly surreal to be doing something that I’ve anticipated for so long. (I’ve known about this since December!) There was, of course, the HR training (“don’t sexually harass each other”) and the computer system training (“don’t leave your password as ‘changeme’”). [...]
Church!
I was too excited about today to blog last night, so here’s a day-late update. I went to National City Christian Church. It’s not the sort of church I usually attend. I’m used to a jean-clad preacher and a rock ‘n’ roll worship band. National City is much more the traditional, hymn-singing kind of [...]
Geeks!
The third day into my photo-a-day challenge, and I’ve already fallen down on the job. I will not count this as a loss, however, because I spent the day coding at a gathering of DC-area geeks. DevHouseDC is a place for any geek of any flavor, from hardcore programmers to electrical engineering tinkerers. I spent [...]
Food!
Today was my unofficial day to eat new things. So I started with Ben’s Chili Bowl. I honestly wasn’t that crazy about the chili, but the half smoke I ate it on was something else. Part sausage, part hot dog, it made my mouth happy and my arteries sad. Ben’s is a DC landmark that [...]
Arrival!
Today, after far too much anticipation and probably too little preparation, I arrived in DC for my summer internship. I packed up my life in four bags, muscled them through the airport, and arrived at my very temporary home in Crystal City. I’m here for less than two weeks before I move to another place [...]