hi all! well the 4th NDN Annual Meeting seemed to go off fairly well - we had 143 people there which was great! we had great speakers like hillary clinton, terry mcauliffe, joe andrews, markos zuniga, mike mccurry - all sorts of good people. i enjoyed it mainly because i got to see hillary . . . i didn't get to meet her as planned because she had an intense coughing fit in the middle of her speech about the importance of health care (of the irony . . .) and had to leave early. damn. i also got to leave work early - at 4:00! a minor miracle! yay! but i'm trapped without a room until courtney gets home around 6:30, which is soon! so what does a homeless girl in DC do? go to gap, of course . . . i figure that now sine i am a stock holder (great grad gift from mom and dad!) i have an obligation to shop there . . . it's almost like an investment! right? that's what i figure anyway . . .

i'm moving into my new place on the 26th - i've decided i will move in then because . . . I AM GOING TO IKEA THIS WEEKEND!!!!!! i LOVE ikea. i will be buying my bed and will have it delivered on the 26th - even if i don't build the whole damn bed that nite i will have a mattress, which is honestly what i expected to sleep on anyway! so i come out a winner! so yay.

one last pol thought before i take off . . . after the meeting today i realize that i think too much inside the beltway. i have been in DC too long - that insiders mentality really gets to you! like i'm sure it's awesome that i know who david brock and joe andrew are, but i'm also sure that no one outside DC gives a shit who they are. so that leaves one to ponder the importance of inside the beltway knowledge, when we have to acknowledge the importance of outside the beltway people. so there you go - my populist thought for the day.