Bear with me please, its been a little tough...

Y'all I don't even know what to say. I been enjoying work, it's been really cool. I really miss my people...even though I am LOVING Dc and the great people I have met! I must say, the Lord has really blessed me with the ability to gravitate toward people that want nothing but the best for me, Angie and Dria really look out for me...and they aren't judgmental, they just help me work thorugh issues and they do have their own opinions, but they never force them on me. They are very understanding and I am so glad to have met them! ;-P

So anyway, I'm supposed to have lunch/dinner with the congressman sometime this week, I'm pretty dang excited about it!! I really and truly like my office and I am so glad that I applied for this...I think everyone should have the opportunity to have an experience like this!! I am gonna have coffee with the Junior Senator from Missouri, Claire McCaskill, on Thursday! I have also seen almost the whole Missouri delegation to the US Congress, how many people can say that?

I am so sick of my whinny, bitchy roommate! I had a little get together last night, I did not invite him (we are not friends, why would I??) so he comes in with a crowd and says something about so i guess I'm not invited? clearly he had a party last week and I had no idea about it, so why would he need to know about mine? Then Dria brings up one of her friends and his tag-along(don't really know either of them, but its cool!) Mr. Bitch decides to whine, complain and slam the door as he leaves, and people keep coming over here uninvited and unsolicited, I don't get it...I don't know of these people...and don't desire their company...WTF? I just really don't like when people act creepy and weird, don't just walk into my room and look crazy...join in or get out, (I prefer the latter, but I'm not a complete asshole!)

Also, the only Full-time Black staffer in the DC office brought me a tv, a remote, and a cable to hook up the cable!! I love my people!! and this is the greatest part: HBO is one of the normal cable channels! I am in heaven now: in DC, TV, good food, good drank, and good people...the only thing missing is a fine lady to call my own!! Imma try to start blogging more regularly again..but i have been really tired lately, I'll do better...not everyday..but more often!

too funny...couldn't resist

You ain't got a bit o' sense...I swear!

Okay y'all, my days have begun to run together...and I am so lost at times...Lawd HEP me! So this week was really a work week for the internship, the Congressional Simulation(heretofore known as CIA[Congress in Action])...I had meetings on Wednesday and Thursday...and they wore me out!! I mean I'm already tired from staying up til all hours of the night and day, then I gotta sit around and discuss this inane ish, but I digress. So in Wednesday's meeting we voted to approve the committee appointments...and yours truly was appointed Ranking Member of the Ed & labor Committee, and also to serve on the platform committee(we decide the broad ideas for the party, as a way to guide legislation). So after the vote we addressed some concerns, and all Imma say is DAMN our leader is good!! She managed to get the Speaker of the house to agree to give up one of their seats on a committee to us, thereby eliminating their majority on this committee when they should have had an advantage of two seats, HAHAHAHA! WHOO! so then Thursday, the platform committee met...and I swear to you we were in that meeting for almost four hours!! but we got a dang good platform! I'm pretty dang excited about it. I got paid on Friday, which means I can finally get some dang groceries!!and there will be no more Trader Joe's for me...at least not yet.

So to the title of the post, Dria da Diva is a complete and utter fool!! she can't stand nobody, and she is real confrontational, but in that secretly, sweet way...where you know she is capable of ripping your face off, but she don't seem like she about to...even though she is tearing you a new one!! So, I'm watching a movie with this crazy chick, why the hell did she say, "I'll be right back..."?? This crazy-lady went to bed...and was knocked out! But before that, Weirdo #1 was locked outta her room and they wouldn't let her in, so i decided to do the police knock. This woke the roommate, but it also woke up some drunk ass Whiteboy named Tom...OMG... he starts saying hello, so i just shut the fuck up...why in-THE-HELL did Dria start going back and forth with this fool?? so he comes over and starts high-fiving, telling us all kinds of shit we don't need to know(EX.: I just met up with a girl I haven't seen in forever(Q: AND???), I'm in the coast Guard(Q:And?), Congressman Cummings ripped us(Coast Guard) a new one). I am trying to cut off the Convo, but him and Weirdo one won't shut up, she keep eggin his ass on! So Dria says, "I don't wanna hear dis shit!!" and walks away to go sit down, me and Weirdo #1 are still there listening to his shit...I'm doing it so she won't be alone... but damn!!, SO I look back pleadingly, and Dria, yells, "Hey Robert! I gotta tell ya something!" so then Tom and I part ways; Weirdo # 1 is stuck and she said he tried to follow her into her apartment!! LOL, so she goes to her room and we start School DAZE, about ten minutes in is when Dria goes and does that shady move!! so then me and Precious finished watching School Daze and she finally got the food she ordered, and there was a surprise...an extra cheese-steak sammich!! And do you know, Precious gave it to me!!! So Finally, Angie D got back to the room we talked and laughed and donated to the the Keep A Child Alive Campaign, it felt good. But before we donated we went through\ this thing about why we can't volunteer at certain places, b/c it make sus cry....why did I almost start crying talking about the Soup Kitchen and SHDM?? but then I left and came upstairs around 2AM and why was there a party in my room?? and some of the dudes gonna ask, "Who the Fuck is that nigga??" when I walk into my own room and put my food in my fridge!!! But one of the girls told him, "Shut the fuck up, he lives here..you don't!!" LOL...a mess...so then I stayed up talking to a few of the other folks from the program...they all asked me where I go when I'm not in the room..and you know i hate that shit...so, I say, "I get ghost...that's all that matters..." and they were all like you right, go head!!! And my roommate clowned this one chick...he convinced her that he was going to bed, and he got her thinking he was just overly drunk....faking...and as soon as she left...he saw the elevator close and then grabbed his hoodie and some rubbers and flew across the street, I guess someone had fun since when i woke up at times during the night...his ass was gone!!! lol...so nasty...he just came in and told me that this chick said, "You know?? Almost every chick in this program wanna Fuck you..." HE says, "well do you??" Her: "no, Not me!!" so if she don't wanna fuck, why she make a point of finding him and telling him that?? I was cracking up when he told me that...I couldn't make this shit up if I tried...and I have a very active imagination!!!

And the beat goes on...

So the second week is here...and y'all...I have made friends!!!! And of course they are women, for this they will be known as Angie K and 'Dria da Diva. So yesterday me, Angie D, and Dri da Diva decided that we would go shopping, they needed groceries and I wanted to tag along. We got off work and went into the Metro Station (notice: we had not heard anything about anything happening on the train system) and we get on this packed train, we rode two stops...and then BAM...we stop dead in our tracks for about 30 mins. We finally moved forward and get off and get on another train to get to the shopping center. We are walking up the street and see another intern, we stop and talk a little. Angie D called ol' boy out for not having any money...me and Dria da Diva died laughing!!! We ended up at Ruby Tuesday, it was cool...my food was good...i can't speak for anyone else's meal. Then we went to a grocery chain and they bought groceries, I of course did no such thing. We then went to Target, and and Angie D went into BedBathandBeyond...she was trying to find pots and pans. She had no such luck...but we did manage to clown the whole time!! after leaving Target, we were walking to the elevator to get to the train station...why did this Mexican man act like he didn't hear us yelling to hold the elevator...it was just as well...cause we needed to get to CVS.

We finally made it to the train stations...why the hell was this train packed with drunk ass...sweaty ass people??? you KNOW I was not in my element!!! and then the dang train was hot as all get out!!! we finally got to the departing station and me being a crazy-ass man...I rushed Dria da Diva through the turnstile thingy...and turned her cart upside down and busted up their eggs. I was so embarrassed!!! I couldn't even stand to look either of them in the face. That was the end of my night...or so I thought...The roommate decided that he wanted to talk to me about his relationship with an unnamed intern...this chick had the nerve to be upset because she wasn't his sole object of affection...fool...this is a summer internship!!! and then he just told me all the shit...I don't even wanna hear it...but then he went on to tell me about everyone that broke up with their significant other for the summer...I don't give a damn about these people. and in the wonderful sentiments of Angie D and Dria da Diva, I just can't take him seriously!!

The Whispers: And the Beat Goes On

And the beat goes on
Just like my love everlasting
And the beat goes on
Still moving strong on and on

Do you ever wonder
That to win, somebody's got to lose
I might as well get over the blues
Just like fishing in the ocean
There'll always be someone new
You did me wrong 'cos I've been through stormy weather.

And the beat goes on
Just like my love everlasting
And the beat goes on you'd better believe it
Still moving strong on and on

Don't stop for nobody
This time I'll keep my feet on solid ground
Now I understand myself when I'm down
Like the sweet sound of hip music
There'll always be something new
To keep the tables turning
Hey this super song
There'll never be an ending

And the beat goes on
Just like my love everlasting
And the beat goes on
Still moving strong on and on (the beat goes on) on, ...

Get down playing that fee, sure the beat is real
The beat goes on

And the beat goes on, ...

Life, Life, Life...Sombody gave me life...

DC is so wonderful!! I am loving it more and more everyday...except for this high prices...but then again..you know I can adjust as soon as I start making a wage that allows me to live in this area. I am gonna try to go exploring this weekend, since all of the museums are free, there is no reason to just sit in this room all day!! I will, however, be going swimming before I do anything!! And y'all...I was so hurt...I lost my election as Democratic Caucus Chair...I swear these folks don't know what they are doing, the Minority Leader should be loud and outspoken the caucus chair should be quiet and studious, and the Whip should be charismatic and forceful. Our Leader is quiet and demure, she happens to be a member of AKA(weirdly, I like her...), the caucus chair is this very verbose, loud, young man, and the Whip is just what she should be(it doesn't hurt that she's from STL, and attending Howard). So we had elections last night, and then today we elected a Speaker of the House...I did not like any of the choices, and my nominee declined the nomination! so here we have three awful choices...and so I voted for the one that I thought would serve my interests as a Democrat the best, well...I was the only one that voted for her!! two folks abstained, and one voted for my roommate(a stereotypically nasty and slutty Kappa)...I would have voted for him, but he was looking at his shoes and covering his face whenever he had to speak...if he's doing that with us, how in the world can he be the face of our "House??" But I digress; the winner is this boy who never, ever shuts up...I like him and all, but I am in this to act like we are the minority and stop legislation, when its not to our liking. But it should be interesting..I'm trying to weasel my way into the fourth spot on the steering committee...no likely, but I'm trying!!!

I love my office...it is so amzing...and i realized that my congressman actually does do work in DC...i was looking at his schedule for the week...and DANG!!!! I don't see where this man has the time to breathe!!! He is like really in touch with the constituents as well: we draft the response letters, but he personally looks at all of the letters and makes corrections and suggestions...I love that he is involved in the process...and like everyone in my office, except for the congressman(63), the Chief of Staff(55) and the Senior Legislative Assistant(27) are under 25...it is so cool and so laid back...btu believe you me...we work....and we work hard!!! They actually sent us interns on a scavenger hunt around Capitol Hill!!! I swear I walked about 5 miles just trying to figure out where all this crap was at, but ti was fun...and since none of us finished...we all get to have dinner with the congressman...and he pays for it!!!

All in all, this first week was good and exciting...but tiring...I never realized how hard it is to work a full-time job and try to work out and other stuff...But I know now...I really don't see how I managed to work two jobs that summer before Freshman YR, and still go out with the homies...crazy!!! Oh, before I go...I have this new found love of Trader Joe's...but that ish is EXPENSIVE!!!



Just like a birdie
I just wanna fly free
And own a piece of land
Somewhere, somewhere off in the country
Oh, oh yeah, listen

Temperature's like a hundred degrees
Like I got chains on me
Blackmail and a family of three
Been right on my destiny
Rake it out fly way
Cuz it's too much for the man
Shouldn'ta gone down this way
What happened to my master plan
Cuz I can't figure out
I coulda been a love child
Shouldn'ta gone down this way
Tell me, how did I get life?

[1] - Life, life
Life, life
Life, life
Life, life

Oh, somebody done done me wrong (Done me wrong)
My eyes to the ceiling all night long (All night long)
Time is slippin' away from me (Away from me)
And it ain't no tellin' when I get home
I gotta get home, yeah

Just about to see the dollar sign,
thats close to a piece of mind
and everything was about to be fine
So tell me, so how'd I get life?

[Repeat 1]

Everything that I hoped for is gone now
Buried in the ground
Hopes and dreams and all those things
I'll never see, said I'll never see
(Somebody gave me life)

[Repeat 1 until fade]

A throwback I couldn't resist(this counts s the art portion of the last post)

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I had a weekend. I touched base with a few folks I know in DC, I talked to Upawrd Mobility about what's going on in our respective lives. I talked with Gram...she just doesn't understand that I cannot live on $500 for 9 weeks! It takes about $25 oer week to travel between the room and work, and then I have to buy groceries and more than likely, I'll be buying those in the city limits, but I may go to PG County to get stuff that ain't dairy-based, like bread and meat and stiff...the ride is like 45 mins, so that stuff should be fine...it's a little cheaper than in the city. I went to K&G and got 4 shirts and 2 ties, of course it was reasonably priced. I think I'm gonna get a pair of blue slacks, and a navy blazer and then not buy anymore clothes until after summer. and I think Imma buy a tv and then pawn it before I leave, I can't take it anymore!!! I don't see how the Artist does it with no TV..I'm ready to jump...and it shouldn't be that deep!!! (but it is, and that ain't the focus today!!) I have been trying to be social(read: walking across a burning barrier to meet new people), and most of the people I talk to are very nice, but there is this group of rude SC Students...no names...but they are rude!!! I was very much channeling Upward Mobility today, I woke up this morning and did laundry and ironed, I have one shirt left, I'm gonna try to iron it before i go to bed. I talked to Artsy-Fartsy(secretly, I'm jealous that she is in ROME!!) but I'm so happy she is having fun!! I kinda feel bad(-ish) for Animal Lover...she is the only one back home, but I know she'll do fine. I have decided that Imma get another tat when i get home, so when I get back to da 'House, I will be the proud owner of at least one more tat, I might get two more...we'll see. I wanna pump this iron, so I can get my chest tattoo. we'll see my progress at the end of the summer, I will only get it if I have a pectoral and not a boob!!! and the last 2 weeks I've decided to grow my hair back out and get it twisted a few times before I head back to ATL. Imma lock it up this year, since there is nothing holding me back!! I talked to The Otha Motha yesterday, she is gonna be moving this week and she said I can stay with her and Milkman's Daughter(b/c she is definitely White, but it's like she is the long lost cousin that the milkman sired...random, I know)!! I can't wait. y'all...the Dash is out of commission, I have reverted back to the RAZR...and I hate it, but I want an Ipod and a Digital Camera, so I have to prioritize. I'll probably put off a new phone until after I buy books in July/August...until next time...leave a comment and watch the video...I love this song!!