The past week

Since my last post was so devoid of photos I'll start this one off right. Here's one of me in my cubicle, which is only that clean because it was Open House night and had to be that clean. Don't worry it's already nerve-wrackingly messy again.



Ah my fellow Instituational Advancement Interns. Ashley on left Mary-Ellen on right. They're a crazy bunch. What can I say?


We had our annual Open House on Wednesday night. It was quite the shindig. TONS of people! Here's my boss (on the right) looking thrilled to be there. Here's our founder and CEO, Zainab Salbi (on the left) and the head of our board of directors at our Open House. I HIGHLY recommend Zainab's first book Between Two Worlds. It's excellent! And since I work there now I recommend the new one too, The Other Side of War. It's more of a photo album, but it has some great stories too.
Thursday night my roommate Ellie a

nd I went to Ford's Theater to see State of the Union which was very very good. It's about a presidential candidate hopeful in like 1946 but a LOT of the ideas and political backstabbing and everything ring true today. It was written about 50 years ago, so it was strange how relevant it all was. I guess nothing ever really changes. Here's a shot of the theater.

Saturday I got to go to the Library of Congress to get some research done. I got a reading room card so now I have access to all the rooms and I was able to do my research in the Main Reading Room, which is the big circular room that they show on all the postcards and everything. It was really really cool, but I'm also a huge dork, so it evens out.

I'm a ladybug for Halloween! I threw the costume together really last minute for the Dog Costume Ball Saturday night, but it'll even work for clubbing next weekend for all the Halloween parties! I think I look pretty darn cute, but I might be a bit biased.Speaking of cute... here's some of the doggies from the Ball. Dogs in costume are hilarious.

That's about it for the week. Today was all about studying, but tomorrow morning I'll probably sleep in, check out a museum and head to our lecture for the Washington Center. So excited. Hope everyone had a good weekend, especially those that went to the Women for Women event in Cleveland! Until next time...