Is it true? Could it really be big post SUNDAY?

So says I. I wonder how long I can keep this up? Just a short comment about blogs: there are very few legitimate reasons to keep a blog. i can think of one - being away from home, one keeps a blog in order to tell those back at home what is going on. from my shallow dive into the blogging world, i've come to the conclusion that 107% of bloggers are obsessed with themselves and 112% write as well as the person who wrote the screenply for "Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon." most people don't read, and for that very reason, most people write poorly. usually, if a person is bad at something, he will avoid doing it. clearly, this is not the case with bloggers. the entire blogging world consists of humans who cannot write well and thousands more who write worse.

Without a doubt (I haven't used a cliché in quite a while...), keeping up is difficult, but enough procrastination already! On Thursday, I led my 2nd Capitol tour. This tour was an absolute blast. I had only 4, a mom and dad with two children. With a smaller group, it's much easier to communicate. Also, they were really interested. A lot of tourists just want to see the Capitol, but these people were interested in the actual history, which I thought was neat. Unfortunately, we didn't ge to see any famous senators from the gallery, only one who gave a long speech explaining his solution to the energy problem. After work, we attended a reception hosted by the Heritage foundation. The reception was held on the 7th floor and the rooftop of the Heritage foundation building. It wasn't muggy and we had a breeze to cool us down, so all in all it was really enjoyable. After the reception which didn't offer much food, we headed to the Dubliner, an Irish pub and restaurant. I had fish & chips, a smashing combination (HA......). Nah, but it was a good meal. We stayed out until around 10 and then headed back to the apartment.

At the reception, I met a guy who just finished his first year at HLS. I told him I was interested in going to law school after college and asked him what he thought about Harvard. He told me the pros and cons. He told me he wouldn't think of going there on the undergraduate level b/c of the intensely liberal philosophies that pervade pretty much everything. He argued that on the post-grad level, one learns more for himself and is able to discern flaws in philosophy if there are any. Concerning application to the law school, he told me that I might want to keep my conservative leanings hush-hush until I get accepted. And that's when I lost respect for this guy. One thing I'm never going to do is disguise who I am. What end can be great enough to deny not only my political philosophy, but also, ultimately, my theology?

I met a kid who graduated from BJU back in 2001 and now works with the Heritage foundation. He couldn't sing the praises of Dr. Abrams loudly enough. He gives credit to the school for a lot, but I guess that's easy to do in a conservative environment like Heritage. He seemed moderately intelligent, so who knows. Evidently, he roomed one semester with Brandon Moody, Luke Frans, and some other guy. That must have been one dorm room.

Friday was a short day. 3 interns--Jacob, Eric, and myself--worked until 1 pm. I took 12 girlscouts on a tour of the Capitol and they didn't even give me cookies; can you believe it? At 1, instead of heading back to my room, I went to the basement of Russell to the Senate Hair Care. Because I didn't have an appointment, I waited in a chair and read the WSJ. I found out that Chrysler is crushing GM and Ford in the auto markets due to the Hemi. Over 50% of Chrysler 300m's, Dodge Chargers, Dodge Magnum's, Dodge Durango's, etc. (the apostrophes are for clarification and are not grammatically necessary) are sold with a Hemi engine. Anyhow, Mario ended up cutting my hair and it turned out well. After the hair cut, I decided that I wanted a shoe shine. What gave me this idea was the man giving shoe shines in the barber shop. I hopped on up in the chair and watched him go to work on my two-tone shoes; they turned out very nicely. I shall wear them tomorrow.

I went back to the apartment and crashed. I woke up around 6 and Jacob was getting ready to head out to Boston. He has some turf-and-grass-major friends working up at Fenway and they invited him for a BoSox game; not bad at all. Especially b/c BoSox tickets run upwards of $70 dollars. He left at 7, I ate my leftover pizza that I had walked 16 blocks to pick up a couple nights before (too much info in that sentence. oh, figure it out). I waited an hour after eating and then decided to go running. I wanted to run somewhere I hadn't gone yet, so I ran from my apartment to the Lincoln Memorial. What a place! When I got there, I read the Gettysburg Address out loud, notiticing how many times some form of the word "dedication" is mentioned. I ran there without stopping and did the same on the return. I almost stopped, but at that moment, as if the running gods were calling out to me, Eye of the Tiger started playing on my Ipod and I knew I couldn't stop then. Rocky would have been proud. In total, seven miles, and it felt GOOD.

Wow, writing really wears me out. I'll super try tomorrow to get through the weekend. It was pretty loaded with a visit to the White House, a metro breakdown, and the start of a new book. I'll get to it all later. Until then,

I'm out.