My recent adventure, besides the 9 hour drive to get here and getting lost to DC and in DC, is with my wireless internet access. Welcome to the real world where the IT man is not right around the corner from you in our local Library. Here, we must call the technical support talk with an Indian male who is too smart for his own good.  I was losing half your mind because he talks in computer jargon and the other half because of the accent. Either way, he hit on me. No one can live until they call a technical man from India talking about how much fun it would be if you were to visit India. Life is Good. Needless to say, my room still does not have wireless internet. Now you might find yourself asking: "How is she writing this blog without having the Internet?" Good Question! I want to thank the person who is currently more computer stupid than myself for not putting up the encryption to safe guard their Internet access. Either way - I will use their services until they figure out how to block me.

For my first day of work, it's another story. Traditionally Interns make coffee and become the slave of the chores in the office.  Same concept different medial tasks. First day - sat in one my first conference call and pretended like I knew what they were talking about. After the phone call came my first assignment. Are you ready for this! The Graduate School is offering a Training Course that consists of 5 areas of expertise (e.g. negotiation, conflict management, etc.) Each person taking this course has the option to take one of the 5 specialized areas, which means that each federal employee taking this course has to send a preference card containing their preference (e.g. 1 - highest to 5 - lowest). So my job is to organized these rankings in a spreadsheet that coordinates with their first pick. This task doesn't sound hard right? Well it wouldn't  be, but there are 285 employees taking this course. Welcome to life as an Intern.

Hope everything is going good at  Mount! Miss you all! Keep me posted on your lives as well.