better day

I met with Kellie (internship coordinator) and Dr. Joyner (dean of LCWS) this morning. Dr. Joyner told me not to worry and not to feel guilty about not having secured an internship yet. Sometimes these things happen, she said. Kellie told me that the Office of the Attorney General was still accepting applications. She printed one out for me and Dr. Joyner offered to write a letter of recommendation for me. I got an email from the OAG a few hours later. I was very impressed with the prompt reply. So, it looks as though I'll be working at the OAG in the Domestic Violence division. Hopefully this will pan out and I'll cease my lazy, bum-like existence.

Since I had nothing to do for the day, I decided to visit the Library of Congress. It was a bit disappointing, actually. The building itself is beautiful, really lovely, with carved white marble and floor-to-ceiling mosaics. But the books are not available to the public. I had this idea of walking through row after row of book stacks, orgasming with delight over the multitudes of volumes. But alas, no such luck. I went shopping before I came home, at Safeway. That was a treat (read: sarcasm), schlepping bags of groceries five blocks.

Tonight we had to go to a taping of the Marvin Kalb show. It was being broadcast on the Washington Post radio station, and XM, and public television. The guest was documentary maker Ken Burns. I'm surprised I didn't fall asleep. I didn't find the conversation particularly riveting. But the upside was that having to sit there for over an hour gave me time to think about a topic for my honors seminar next semester. It's quite a long list, actually, but right at the top is "the 10 most influential murder cases of the 20th century and how they shaped history." (I adore long titles.) I'm thinking Beth Short, JonBenet Ramsey, Marilyn Sheppard, Martha Moxley, the LaBianca-Tate kills, the Clutter deaths, Nicole Brown-Simpson and Ron Goldman, as a start. I can rework the list later. Other contenders are the War of the Roses, Seminex , the Partition (I really wonder how many Americans know what that is), Suffragists, libertarianism, Saddam Hussein, origins of popular urban legends. It's so hard to decide.

I just realized that the reason I'm so tired could be because it's almost 3am. Hey, I'm watching season 7 episodes of The X-Files on TNT. It's hard to tear myself away. Even though I've seen these episodes before. Many times. And I have this season on dvd. Stop mocking me.