January 13th: Happy Birthday To Me (almost)

All right, let's do this thing.

I have a cool story to share. Two weeks ago, I got to go along to the swearing-in ceremony for the Senator I intern for...as the Purse Holder. (They're not allowed to bring bags inside the Senate chamber so I stayed outside for the most part). But here is the cool part: there's a staff subway that travels between the different office buildings and the Capitol itself. I was crammed in one car with the Senator and maybe ten other people. I stood near the door, trying to make myself invisible since everyone there was important and unaware of my name. An older gentleman stood next to me, holding on to the handrail. As the train started, it lurched so I grabbed on to the handrail as well.
"I'm just going to hang on here, if that's okay," I said to the gentleman next to me. "I don't want to fall into you!"
He smiled at me and said "oh, there'd be worse things!"
I returned his smile, thinking to myself: "awww, the Senator has such a cute old uncle/dad/friend!"
As we disembarked, another group of people approached ours and I saw the Senator put her arm around that same gentleman and say, "Oh, let me introduce you to my friend, Walter Mondale!"

OH MY GOD. I PRETTY MUCH HELD HANDS WITH WALTER MONDALE AND IT'S TOTALLY FINE BECAUSE I'M NOT EXCITED ABOUT IT OR ANYTHING.

But don't worry, the story gets cooler. At the reception for our Senator, I was working the door as a greeter. "Hi, welcome to the reception, please fill out a name tag and take some Minnesota trivia with you!"
I was doing that like it was my day job (well...) when I saw some armed men walking down the hallway.
"Hmmm," I thought to myself. "Those are some large firearms. Who are they protecting?"
then all of a sudden, here comes Joe Biden, the Vice President of the United States and GUESS WHAT HE DID? HE WINKED AT ME, THAT'S WHAT.
Then to top it all off, John McCain waved at me. I spent the next hour practically hyperventilating and smiling my face off and thinking "wow I am the coolest girl in the world, Walter Mondale is my BFF and so is the VP! Maybe they'd want to hang out..."

So I have a really cool job. I adore it.

In other news, my birthday is approaching and guess what I get to do? I have a two day Security and Protocol training at the State Department. So I will spend my birthday learning what to do if my house is attacked or if the Embassy is invaded or other scary things. It's fine. I'm over it. (I'm actually pretty excited).

Well. It's been good y'all. Stay safe and keep it real.