I Got it Bad & That Aint Good

I am officially in love with this city... and that's even with being sick as a dog on Thursday.

On Tuesday the Drug Cartel event was canceled, unfortunately. However, I got a lot of research done for my supervisor and her project. Wednesday I was able to watch a congressional nomination for our new commander. It was so interesting! And then came Thursday...

One of my coworkers was out Monday and Tuesday sick. Then another person was out Wednesday. Well Wednesday afternoon I noticed my eyesight was getting a little poor as my eyes got dryer, then I got a headache, and then I got a tickle in my throat. I woke up Thursday feeling dreadful. Wanting to power through it, I tried to go to work. I got there and was miserable... so I went home. By this point I had a horrible headache and was dizzy. Actually, when I was going down one of those two-story long escalators I actually almost toppled over. I stumbled down a few steps but caught myself. When I got home I slept from 10 am until around 6.

Yesterday was a lot better. It was our department head's birthday so we went out to celebrate for a late lunch and then went home early. Hooray! Then I was able to spend the night with Liz, who left this morning to go home for the summer. And today I went with my friend, Andy, to the African Art Museum, the International Art Museum, and the Smithsonian Castle (where the picture is from). In the International Art Museum there was this amazing exhibit on the Russian Tsars and gifts given to them by the Persian Shahs and the Turkic rulers. I couldn't take pictures though. Sad.

I really am falling more and more in love with this city. I want to do graduate work here more and more. And my supervisor, god love her, wants me to do the Presidential Management Fellows Program... the most prestigious fellows program in DC. She thinks I have a chance. Of course, you need to have completed some sort of graduate degree to apply. So the fact that she 1. thinks I can get into grad school and 2. have a chance to get this fellows program makes me feel, to say the least, very honored.

I'm going to end this by sending a message to my littlest sister. I wore your bracelet today! I love it a lot. To those of you who haven't see it, my little sister got this for me at Disney World. It says "Go Green." So to my littlest sister: "I miss you!" Of course, I miss all of my family, but I really wanted to send this message for my littlest sister.