Part 2 of how I have blown it.

5. Pro Wrestling Fan: Not too many people like pro wrestling and since its fake it only makes things worse. Sure, most of tv and reality tv may be scripted but to like something so fake like wrestling is juvenile. Most wrestling fans are losers(and fat) and as a wrestling fan I guess I am a self loathing wrestling fans. I hate that I get excited over a fake match that no one will remember or care about. I have spent too much time reading news sites and message boards when I could of been doing something productive. Too bad all my foxboro friends like it so I have to stick with it or they will make me.

6. Other random geekyness: I read comics, have an irrational love for Apple Computers, play a ton of video games, and quote the Simpsons on random. I just wish I could be fucking normal.

7. My general personality: I have nothing. I am horrible in conversation and unless you need someone to talk politics with I am pretty useless.

I only post this here because there is no chance anyone would see it. For if it were to be seen by wrong person than I have explaining to do. Recently, I have decided that as a person that I have "blown it". How have I blown it? Lets count the ways.

1. Track and Field: In 2005 I ran a 4:45 mile with room to grow going in to college. In 2009, I have yet to run a time faster than 4:45. Why you may ask? Because I am stuck with a coach who likes to run us into the ground. What's that? My high school coach knows nothing? Well I would take him over my college coach. Sorry but there is a reason why my runs were faster and workouts were faster when I was training myself prior to coming back for this season. Oh well, us distance runners peak in our mid 20s, late 20s at the latest so I am like an old man in distance running at just under 22 years and 9 months. Its not like I have a lot of time to get good anymore.

2. Anime: Theoretically I shoudn't be watching anime to begin with. That peace of shit called the english dub of Sailor Moon anime that I watched when I was in 3rd grade should of been enough to turn me away but nope I now like anime. I just had to watch Akira at 11 and that was it. This isn't viewed as favorable where I am because anime = super disgusting tentacle rape porn to everyone else that does not watch it. Admitting that one time I went to hentai dubbing wasn't the best idea either. Also, I hate anime fans. You all act like your 15 and randomly proclaiming that "you lost the game" does not make you funny on any level. Since I am an anime fan, I suppose I am a self loathing anime fan. Also, the fact that yaoi fans seem to have issues with every character not being gay pisses me off.(Don't believe me? go to fan ficton.net or check out that guy who did his whole AB 08 masquerade act as Sora from KH complaining that about his relationship with Riku) Don't call me homophopic, I walked in Boston Pride 06. Also, people taking "creative control" over characters that they like is something that I loathe in general. Thinking about skipping out on Anime Boston 09 unless someone can make a very good argument for me to go.

3. Relationships: I have successfully convinced myself out of going after the 3 girls I have liked here. The first one was crazy and I knew that would be a PR disaster for a lack of a better term. Luckily for me, she is playing the Katy Perry fake lesbian in a modest cry for attention so well done. The second one I convinced myself was a nervous wreck and started that after she gave me friend treatment in addition to an extremely rough night involving a whole lotta booze, making sure she didn't die, and having to deal with a drunk meltdown over someone who may or may not have been on the track team and may or may not of willfully had a 3 way.(Yes she was on the team, yes she consented). Besides, when you can barely see her one day a week and can't even set a day to hang out and play fucking Rock Band then how can you expect it to work. Finally, the last one. 1 of my 2 undisputed best friends here. The first person I met when I walked on to campus as a freshmen for the very first time. I fell for her because she was fun and I enjoyed her company. Too bad it probably wouldn't work too well for the ex-John Kerry intern and the girl in the facebook group "Actually John Kerry, You Are an Idiot." and now like every other girl she is trying to bang some asshole in some attempt to make up for 3 and a half years of an anti-sex belief. I think I am going to be single. I'm fine with it. More money for me and less chance to waste a million bucks raising a kid.

4.Choice of music: When I like to "get down" on a Saturday night, I enjoy the musical stylings of some Daft Punk, Girl Talk, David Guetta, Bob Sinclar, or maybe some other electronic artists. Unfortunately for me, everyone else likes to get drunk and scream "all the single ladies" or some shitty Lil John song. Outside of One More Time or World Hold On, dance music is rare for me and everything else is near unemployable. For this, I despise myself.

That is about it for now, I am sure more will come up in the near future.

I've been back home since Thursday Night(7/31) and have been in high demand so I guess I will summerize what has happened since I got back.

Friday: After running around and doing 100 errands(including getting 9 weeks worth of comics, and some stuff somehow didn't make it into my box) some of my friends decided to hold a welcome back party with a special surprise. Now after waiting a week for this surprise, I was quite impatient. Finally it was around midnight and my friend comes in with 2 ladies and straight into his bed room. Then he starts arranging the chairs in a circle with me in the middle. Finally, he puts on pour some sugar on me with both ladies comming out with less clothing on. That's right, my friends decided that me comming back called for strippers. Now usually I would say that strippers are not the way to go and are for men who can't get any, but who am I to tell a naked chick to get off me? So they did their thing(lap dances, lollypop rides, strap on action, ect.) and that was the highlight of the evening.

Saturday: Family clam bake happened. Every year it gets worse and worse. The crowds are smaller everything and I barely know the people there. Lets not forget about the fact that I am allergic to all seafood(apparently simply saying but you can have the steak that people make is suppose to make this better but I want some clams not steak!) But getting back to the point, most people that I know my age at it just sit in the corner and avoid people. Personally I hate to have to talk to people that I barley see but I have a thing where I can't get tired of my accomplishments that would make people jelous or impressed so when people asked I just had to talk about what I've done this summer. But besides that, its just boring because my group are the older ones and there are too many little kids whos name that I can't remeber and too many people who are there because they know someone. That wasn't a problem when there were actually people there but there is no one there anymore! We use to stay as late as possible but this year I was begging to leave at 8ish.

Sunday: Dark Knight on iMax in Providence. Usuaully, a 6:40 show on a Sunday wouldn't be sold out but nope this was. So we waited for the 10pm show. Afterwards the securitty decided to block off the only way we knew how to get back to my car so we had to walk out of the mall and back in another way to get to my car. For the record, the 10pm show was sold out too. Seriously people, why are you going to a 10pm show on a sunday? I only went because I have nothing else left to do.

Monday: Finally crashed, too many people wanting me and my attention.

Friday-Sunday: Visit friend in connecticut. Once again proving that the state is only a glorified traffic jam full of people who cannot drive. Also of note, I need to buy a boat. After spending a day on my friend's boat, I am convinced that I need to make a lot of money soon so I can buy one.

More notes comming soon

Yea, so I got the friend treament this week. Not something that I really wanted but I guess I should explain. I always told myself that I would never like another member of my own cross country team or track team because if it were to fail, then it gets complicated due to the large amount of time you spend when your team. Well during the end of the school year, I decided that I liked someone on the track team. This is in addition to the previous girl on the team that I had to get over simply because she was crazy and way too hyper active for me. So getting back to the main point, I can't make a move because we're all about to go away for the summer. So I say to myself "hey, just wait 3 months, keep contact and make a move in September." Originally I was banking on her interning in Baltimore, but she's in San Fransico instead so that hurt. But anyways, this week I get the IM which says "I need advice with a guy I like." ...........WELL FUCK ME! The worst part was that I knew who exactly she was talking about since her comments on the photos of her making out with the guy were literally taking over my facebook feed(Yeah, I was ready to blow at work when I saw that. Only being calmed down by finding out that some girl that I went to HS with got arrrested for posession cocaine. Yeah, I'm weird like that). But fast forwarding back to the convo, I found my self dealing with "I met a guy I liked and now he won't return my texts" We are talking hardcore analyzing everything text by text debating whether I do the right thing and give her the right advice or I try to move everything into my favor.(For the record, unless there was some progress that I don't know about, the guy seems like a douche but I am not there and bias so who knows) Now at this point, I see myself going into "just friends" terriroty. So, she's made it clear that it would be a summer fling and nothing more. That gives me some hope but i don't know, i got 5 weeks until I go back to school and anything can happen between now and then. I hope that I can somehow get this done. After not being in a relationship since high school is getting a bit old and having one would be nice right now. Ugh, I just didn't want to find myself in friend terriory..............again! I mean she did the whole "all men suck, except you" think but I am not putting a lot of hope into that. Haven't talked to her since, although she has barely been online since so who knows what the situation is with that. Ugh, this is why falling for a girl at the end of the year is a BAD IDEA. Just for the record, I had The Lonely Man from the Incredible Hulk playing the whole time. I had to play something and I was not going to play any emo.

Anyways I am home in 6 days. I have 2 days of work left. I cannot wait. I am sick of all the stuff I am doing at work. I am sick of the 100+ name piles of letters that were emailed to us and all have the exact same wording(and I mean identicle, more people just copy and paste letters from websites or emails they get). I am going to miss knowing everything the second it happens and watching everything go down live. Sometimes I wonder if I am just going to sit in front of the TV watching C-SPAN going "I WAS THERE AND NOW I DON'T KNOW WHAT IS HAPPENING ANYMORE!" It's ok, I'll be back in insider's territory when I get to the convention(FINALLY got a room in Denver after registration got delayed for over 3 months!).

Kinda mad at my friends for the right reasons at the moment. They claim they have a big surprise for me, yet they won't tell me what it is. Now I hate having to wait that long for a surprise! The worst part is that's they know its driving me crazy! This is going to be good, or a huge let down. Wow, so the surprise may or may not be good lol.

Finally, I am doing a 5K tomorrow night which should be fun. We never have XC races in the evening and its going to be cool to run with the sun setting over Arlington and all the monuments across the river in DC. Wish me luck, we're going to put the training to the test tomorrow.

The thing about the public sector is that people think they have the right to tell anyone in it because its the public sector. Today we got to see 20-30 activists bombard our waiting up and hold a sit in until Barney Frank talked to them. I mean this was full all out packed room everyone is pissed at the wrong guy activism. We got the out after the congressman had to go to a meeting. After that they still bugged him on the way to his meeting. We had to get the police to hold people back. The worst part was that they came in like we were ignoring them and disinfranchised. First of all, they were pissed that they couldn't have a meeting at that moment. Maybe try to schedule one? You can't go into someone's office and demand a meeting! They filmed it too so I am sure that it will end up on the internet soon. Based on their website looks like they did the same to Governor Patrick and Bear Stearns. I mean we're the ones trying to help the people that they represent so I don't know why they are attacking us like we stole their houses and money. They will probably show up at the next Finanace Comittee hearing. Oh well.

If that wasn't enough, we started getting tons of blocked # on the phones concerning 1 issue. This group somewhere in Iowa were calling people in New Bedford and telling them to tell us to support a bill and then transfering them to us. Half the people were confused to why they were being called. When one of the people doing the transfering was on the line she had the gall to not only refuse to name the organization(I got it out of her) but to say that they were asked to help the caller. Seriously, its not telling us anything when you have to tell people to call. I can't believe this is even legal. I can call someone and tell the to say something to someone and then transfer them? Its just annoying. Really, really annoying.

Just for the record: The Countdown to Boston is down to 9 days.

Before I begin this let's just get this out of the way. Yes I know this is about pro wrestling. Yes I probably should of stopped watching 10 years ago but then again all the college students watching High School Musical should of stopped watching the Disney Channel 10 years ago too. So I watch it, don't take it seriously and have a good time watching it. On to the post!

For the past couple of days, my Foxboro friends and I have been having been watching WWE RAW and and doing a large AIM Chat to comment on it. It began with a few of us and it was fine. We joked and made fun of each other's favorite wrestlers. It was fine and it was a few of us. Then, one person in this group decided to let all these other people in that I don't know. Now its to the point where a couple of us don't even know who is in this chat anymore! That is not the worse part, these are someone the most sexist, racist, and homophobic people I have seen. In this chat tonight that went from 8:50 to a little past 11, we had 4 racist comments(1 was because we were talking about the Quinten Jackson incident and not wrestling), 20 comments where something or someone was called gay or a fag, 9 comments concerening the body of a male pro wrestler, 6 comments objecting to this or stating how it was a chat room of gay bashing men commenting on how other males looked, 1 person admitting that the WWE Divas "keep him straight", 2 comments on dead wrestlers, 1 comment expressing how offensive the dead wrestler comments were, and finally a long conversation on the honor of kissing the behind(and then some) of WWE CEO and Majority Stock Owner Vince McMahon. This does not include any of the standard sex jokes or comments regardng any of the Divas. So my point is that this chat had grown men in their 20s saying all of this. Is there ever a point where we can grow up? When I am watching RAW or any wrestling show, I want to enjoy the show and comment on it as necessary. Debating whether a wrestler is good or not is fine but more often than not I have to deal with comments that would be found in an 8th grade classroom. Now I know this is wrestling but can all this go away because it is becomming painful to chat with my friends and whoever they drag in. That's the main point of this. IT IS PAINFUL TO TALK TO MY OWN FRIENDS. I don't care how many times you want to call C.M. PUNK a fag, I think he's a damn good wrestler and he banged hotter chicks then anyone in that chat will. If you want to criticize what he does in the ring or on the mic, that is fine but don't degrade the conversation to calling a wrestler a fag and then talk about how you want to give Vince McMahon a rim job. I am 22 years old. Everyone in that chat was no younger than 21. When you are that age you have to grow up. I was embarassed to be in this chat and think it shows something when grown men can't act like they are older than 14. I am not saying this because of who I work for or work with. I am saying it because it is wrong and I am tired of having to sit through it. I am actually considering not doing the chats anymore. If I wanted to see that many gay jokes and N bombs I would of went to the comments section of a random you tube video.

So after 5 days of being computer-less, its back! Long story short, the hard drive is going in the crapper. I think I can survive with it. If not then I will just buy a external drive and install the OS on it and work off of that. With all this time away(Sorry but, I will not type at work because I will not let anyone at my office see this). But that is beside the point. So Christina came for a few days and overall it was nice. Funny story, I didn't tell the silent one that she was coming and she refused to believe that he was that silent and that disconnected from what happens in the room. She told me that she would find out what he did and talk to him. So we get back to my place and I tell him that she would be staying with us. He turned around from his computer, said ok, and that was that. No nice to meet you, no how are you doing, no introductions. He then went missing from Thursday morning until late today. His stuff is back but he is still not here. Its too bad he won't talk. A note or something would of been nice so I wasn't like WTF for the past couple of days. But she was here and we saw some friends from Wheaton.

Also saw the Dark Knight and it was awesome. I am not going to type up how awesome it was because you probably know how awesome it is. Also awesome previews for Watchmen and T4!

Finally, super embarrassing moment at the Apple Store today. I went to get my computer fixed so they needed to make a backup of my drive. So the guy opens up my HD and is selecting all the files to back up. One of those files that he saw was a folder called "Hentai Dubbing" I have a file of videos from the dubbing session from Anime Boston 08 and I was pretty much just embarrassed and turned red. Thank god I left my porn in a different folder which does not look like a porn folder. In the end my computer was saved and I am able to go online again!

So kinda disappointed by Nintendo at E3. It was really sad that the highlight was GTA on the DS(and no game play footage to show). Wii Music is weak compared to Rock Band and Guitar Hero. I don't care about Animal Crossing. I want Reggie not some person trying to be the cool mom. The new Wii Sports looks kinda lame and there was no Punch Out! I want PUNCH OUT! I am not going to spend all this money on glorified mini games. If I do spend a ton of money, its going to be on Rock Band so I can play Livin' on a Prayer and Hungry Like the Wolf. I want to see more Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 but all that was shown is a 20 second teaser. Its suppose to take place during the Secret War and Civil War and you have to choose sides which means I can right a wrong and lead Captain America to victory! Yet, the whole time I am going to be like well he's a skrull, and that person is a skrull too, and so on. After cracking and downloading New Avengers and Mighty Avengers, let me just say that leave it to Hank Pym to end up being KTFOed by a Skrull all because he had a fight with his wife. Also, I guess Fury can blame himself for Spider-Women being a skrull.

Ok, people are taking the whole Budweiser now being own by a Belgium company. Once again people are doing the OMG FOREIGNERS ARE TAKIN OUR JOBS DRINK AMERICAN! FUCK BELGIUM! First of all, none of the plants are being closed and its still going to be brewed IN AMERICA! AND YOU KNOW I AM BEING SUPER SERIOUS BECAUSE I AM TYPING IN ALL CAPS! Seriously, no one will even notice the difference. At least Colbert can be funny about it.

Christina comes tomorrow which will be nice. I'll give her a tour of the Capitol and whatnot. It will be nice to have someone who talks in here since my roommate who talks had to go home early. I still haven't told my silent roommate that she is coming. I am convinced that he wouldn't notice because all he does is play WoW in the corner. Seriously I should tape video evidence of it and throw it on the internet because he wouldn't notice. But back to Christina. Seriously good for her for being the only one to come down and see me not from Northern Virginia. That's loyalty for ya. If your loyal you get rewarded, hence the tour. So the moral is stay loyal or agree to a strategic alliance and it will pay off.

Weird week in the office. Gay bashing mail was up. Angry calls about the finance committee was up(I swear a Ron Paul supporters was behind them). Then there was today where I got a death threat. This person wanted to have something cleared up about the mortgage crisis. I told him I was going to send him to our finance committee staff(that is where all our staff if who deal with finance issues is located. I guess that goes in the no shit category.) This person replied "I DON'T WANNA TALK TO A FINANCE COMMITTEE STAFF MEMBER I WANT A OFFICE STAFF MEMBER!" All attempts to tell him that they were our staff failed. After a long rant on how we're not doing anything right, not caring about the people, and how we're a disgrace who never should be allowed in politics again, I was told to drop dead. That was my first death threat ever. I don't know why these people go that far. Is there something bad ass about telling someone to die than hanging up the phone? Am I missing something? Its just dumb and a clear sign that someone has been watching too much C-Span and is looking for something to be angry about. BTW I still love the call we got from the Ron Paul nut that debated on the phone whether she was going to yell at me or watch Ron Paul on C-SPAN. LOL at blind dumbasses who think their idol can do no wrong. Not that I completely hate Ron Paul because I don't. I just think that if your going to be in government, you shouldn't hate government. You wouldn't have someone who hates anime draw anime or let someone in your rock band who hates rock music. So why is someone who hates government and believes it should do jack shit work in government? Maybe I am missing something here. Ok fuck it rant time. Ron Paul supporters piss me off to no fucking end. They fucking take over websites(Digg, Reddit I am looking at you) to make their numbers look bigger and basically vote in every poll they can to make it look like they are bigger than they are. Then the second the poll goes not because its not a clear depiction of the website's regular readers, the moan and bitch how they are being held back and no one loves liberty and freedom anymore. IT'S NOT THEM ITS YOU ASSHOLES! YOU CAN'T CALL EVERYONE WHO DOSEN'T AGREE WITH YOU MINDLESS AND CALL YOUR EX-OBGYN LEADER DR. PAUL EVERY CHANCE YOU GET. And god forbid you don't agree with them on anything. Then it becomes "What's the matter? Do you hate freedom and the constitution?" No, but I do enjoy having a Department of Education, Medicare, Social Security, a public police force, public firefighters, and a actual factual government!(Yes, Paul planned on destroying every federal department and program if hell froze over and he got the presidency). I'm sorry that I can't appreciate the values of the rights of the state but I am sure that we tried that whole loose confederation states thing a couple hundreds of years ago and that failed terribly. This is why I am happy NO ONE knows about this because this entry could get me into a LOT OF TROUBLE LOL.

If today was good for anything, it was for Secret Invasion 4. Now before I continue there will be spoilers you might wanna leave. Go ahead and close this window if you have not read it yet. Last chance after this there are going to be spoilers. Ok you had your chance now here we go. I said that Stark would not be a skrull and now he may be a skrull and not realize it. So I guess I am kinda right about that. But he may not be a skrull and that was a bluff so idk. Fury is badass and not taking any risks with the shooting of one Ms. Marvel Carol Danvers. The only problem is the pacing and that is mostly because its an 8 issue comic. That means that things are gonig to be slower pace wise. Personally I think a mini-series should be around 6 issues. I have a feeling that something is going to be retconned. There is going to be one major event(Avengers Disasembled or House of M) that is going to be changed.

So I finally got to go to the House Gallery and watch the House of Representatives in action. It was interesting for the vote where they have a giant board with all the member's name on it and how they voted. They also got mini scoreboards for the yeas vs the neays with timers. Its soooooo cool when your there and you can pick out all the representatives that you know. Yet once again I did, you guessed it, about nothing. I made a damn phone call and highlighted some stuff that probably took no more than 30min. Oh well 3 weeks and counting.

Finally, only a week until E3 woo hoo! I can't wait to be seen and get some confirmed songs for ROCK BAND 2. Rumor has it that Livin on a Prayer and Hungry Like the Wolf will be in it and I hope that is true. If it is there is going to be more drunk rock band than there was before and it will be awesome!

UGH THEY MADE US DO NOTHING TODAY! The first half of the day the highlight was a caller who wanted to know if my boss was a communist of socialist. After I said he was neither(no shit?) I got a rant on something about the 8th comandment(thou shall not steal). The afternoon was a session on giving tours that was while interesting, way too long. It was 3 and a half hours and I didn't get out until the 4th hour. But know I know more about the US Capital than I ever needed to know. So if you want a tour, I'm here till August.

So Secret Invasion is tomorrow. I cannot wait to see it since I have no idea what is going on besides with the Runaways and the Young Avengers. I can't wait to see what Fury is going to do. I wonder what is happening on the X-Men front. All I know is that they are going to San Francisco. Which I can get behind because how many super heros do you need in NYC? We get it. Its a very dangerous city but there is danger else where.

So I finally cracked. After being told I was using more bandwith than 99% of the people on campus, I decided to pull back on the bittorrent use(although it was only because of the uploading and downloading of a 4+ GB video of game 1 of the NBA Finals.). But, I just couldn't wait to go home to read Runways 30 so I downloaded the arc and a couple of other things that I have at home from the series. Now for some background. On Joss' X-Men, he wrote out one of my favorite X-Men by having Kitty Pryde sacrifice by phasing with a big damn bullet for enternity. Now he has a chance to bring back my favorite character but nooooooooo he dosen't pull the trigger. It shouldn't surprise me that I was given hope and then felt worse than when I began. Yet, I am confused by some things. Is Xavin technicall a girl now? Instead of finding Gert at a random point, why not intervean when shit went down with Geoffry '85 to lessen the Butterfly Effect? Can a character taken from 1907 really develop beyond "wow, this is not what I am use to"? Finally, did we really have to go with a more cartoony style for volume 3? Overall I liked it. The arc in general is better when reading it at once instead of randomly. Do I complain about Whedon's scheduling issues too much? I feel like i kind of do. Oh well its ok he's gone now. I guess that is good and bad at the same time.

So looks like I may be comming home 1-3 days early. I can't complain. My parents kinda want to get me as soon as possible and I want to get home as soon as I can. The first thing I am doing is getting a Papa Gino's pizza while watchnig a Red Sox game on one tv and the Celtics world champions DVD on another TV. Just figured I would throw that random fact in there. They may be coming down here for a few days too. I offered to give them a tour of the Capital. Trust me when I say to do staff led tours or you will be standing in line for a very, very, very long time. I get to go to the staff tour orientation for 3 and a half hours on Wednesday. I really wish it didn't have to be that long but it will be more productice that sitting in the office.

Finally, there is this rumor that Obama is going to give is nominaton speech at Invesco Field at MIle High instead of the Pepsi Center. Just so you get the difference, the Pepsi Center can hold around 21,000 people. Mile High holds 75,000. It would be outside and awesome. But with the DNC having money issues, I don't know if it will happen. It would be cool to see.

The good news: 4 DAY WEEKEND. The bad news: It's in DC. The worst news: its a southern city where the service is slow and the city shuts down by 7 with the exception of the clubs. Unforturently I am not one to go into the clubs and bars alone so I will try my best to enjoy the patriotic festivies save for the rain we're suppose to get. Breaking news: MY FOURTH IS SAVED! I am going to a friends house in Virginia. Fuck those tourests. I'm sorry but interning for Senator Kerry and having to be around Faneuil Hall and Government Center gave me a bad taste for them. I just get tired of seeing a bunch of people looking in awe in the same old stuff that I look at. You don't see me looking at the White House going OMG IT'S THE WHITE HOUSE AND WOW IT LOOKS THE SAME AS IT DOES IN PHOTOS AND VIDEOS. That is why you will not be seeing any photos or video of me near a monument. You're going to have to trust my word.

Enough of that. So I am almost done catching up with Runaways and I must admit I am a little sad. I just got past the part where my favorte one Gert died...........AGAIN! How can I not make the one that wanted to be a Senator and reserved the word evil for non-mac computers my favorite? Now what am I suppose to do for beyond issue 18? They all suuuuuuuuuuuck! Well not really but you get my point. So soon I will be almost all caught up. It is just a matter of gettting issue 30 as soon as I get home.

Guess I should comment on this since its been a big story all week. Wesley Clark goes on Face the Nation and says that John McCain getting shot down and being a POW does not mean he is qualified to be President. Before I go on I'll throw in the history of the issue of the roll of McCain's military history. Yes, I have heard this from Democrats on and off the hill. It was kinda one of those things which you said to the people you knew but wouldn't say on national tv. Hell, in 2000 a House Republican who was a GOP said that despite his Vietnam experience, he thinks he would make a lousey president. So we have a past history where this has been said before but for the first time someone(not an Obama campaign official mind you) is sayng this. Of course Obama dismissed it saying that he didn't want to attack McCain like that and the Republicans were appaled at General Clark. As someone who studied and did a presentation and paper on the swiftboating of Kerry in 04, I guess I have some insight on this. When you constantly bring up a part of your life, your going to get attacked for it. It happens and you have to be prepared to be attacked. Personally, I think that being tourtued for 5 and a half years does not mean you are qualified to be the President. With that being said, what he had to do was brave and even more when you considered he refused to be released without his men. Of course we're kidding ourselves if we say that we would do the same. At the same time, his military experience does not justified a vote from me. How is him being in Vietnam therefore make him the best to handle Iraq? Will this anyway show what to expect for a domestic policy. This does not tell me that, rather his actions in the House and Senate do. So I guess the bottom line is that we should attack him for what he did or didn't do as a politician rather not what happened to him as a solider. I have said all that I have wanted to concerning his militaty record and will be focusing on prasing or critizing his history in congress. Of course its not that simple and as long as he mentions Vietnam the more he will be attacked for it. Its just too bad the GOP wasn't this upset when Kerry was attacked for his Vietnam experience 4 years ago.

Everyone is gone home except me. Half the interns are either home or visiting people and most staffers are getting the hell out. While leaves me here alone. My mom kinda offered to let me come home in that kinda half hearted "well if you really want you can take the train back late thursday night" way. So its either stay here or go home by way of a 9+ hour train ride late thursday or early friday and then come back Monday. So I am going to stay here and enojy the 4th with all the other ultra patriotic tourists. That is comming from the guy with the Captain America icon. To be fair, cap did fight the government from time to time. AND YOU CAN'T SAY ANYTHING BAD ABOUT HIM BECAUSE HE'S DEAD! Rumor has it that if you have a Congress ID Badge then you can watch the fireworks from the steps of the capital. I may do that. I just may.

So the office has been dead. With a congress on vacation comes the slow days. The phones are dead too. The only people that are calling are from outside the district and well, they are not as important as people in the district. The highlight of the day was when we got an order for a shit load of flags and we had to turn it into a two day project because that many people want american flags! Besides that we are just wraping up some data input and just doing a whole lotta nothing. That is the general nature of these internship and you gotta pay your dues i guess.

Tomorrow starts the 3 day work week where we are out of session. Which means nothing is going on anywhere on the hill. BOOOOOOOOO-URNS! Tomorrow is when I get to learn how to use the research website. Should be interesting but useless.

Now for a sad note, Foxboro lost the 4th young person in a car crash since 2002 and possibly the 5th person. Its too bad really that people are dumb and gotta drink and drive like that. As the story goes, person 4 had several people on her facebook wall say how they couldn't wait to get drunk with her on Friday. Person 5 was her bf. A complete asshole who beat her and was a drug addict. Person 5 was at a party and everyone wanted him out because of him being a scumbag and all. He called person 4 to pick him up. She went drunk, got him, and now she is dead and he is on life support and almost dead. Its too bad. Didn't know 4 well but graduated with 5. She deserved better than him. Much better. Its just sad that people in this town are dumb. Part of the reason why I keep a low profile at home. Just for the record I always make sure I know who is driving and make sure that they are sober. There is no drunk driving to or from my house. People gotta learn responsibility. With this happening again, I doubt the youth of Foxboro is smart enough. In my sophomore year, I told my math class that they were very dumb people. Too bad I was right to a degree

Saw Wall-E today. It was good, not the greatest movie good, but better than most movies good. The one thing is that I haven't been to a G rated movie in a long time. In a really, really long time. Probably haven't gone to one since 2001 maybe. I forgot how many parents take their kids to movies in the middle of the afternoon. My god kids are annoying! If I didn't want the before I really don't want them now! They are loud, annoying, and laugh at something for 40 seconds while proclaiming why they are laughing. NO SHIT WE SAW IT TOO! The theater was terrible too. I only went to it so I could pick up the volume 3 and 4 of Runaways. No stadium seating and a really, really dumb crew of workers. You think that there would be a little more intelligence down here but no. I find that people are a tad dumber down here than in Boston. Maybe I am wrong and I very well could be. Another thing I don't get is why stores and some restaurants close early down here. I mean a freaking Quiznos is only open until 6 or 7 down here. Starbucks isn't open on weekends! What if I have a hankering for some Starbucks or a toasty sub?It's dumb! Even Boston with their blue laws of when a business can open and close has stores that are open longer. Ok, enough of the negative.

In addition to Runways 3 and 4 I got the new Futurama movie! I've always enjoyed Futurama as it is proof that Matt Groening still has it and that the last 10 seasons of the Simpsons isn't a reflection of what he can do. I still need to watch it and probably will tonight.

Something that has been bugging me and I need to get this off my shoulders. It is the lack of trust between the staff and interns in my office. It is really annoying because if we don't come back with what they want, they become annoyed. For example I had to research if something was going to be in a bill and when I reported back that the bill was still being drafted and wasn't even being close to being done, the staffer in question lectured me on how I need to use the research website(which I did use) and search for it. Just like I discovered, she saw that I was RIGHT! Now don't get me wrong my first assignment or so were a little rough because I didn't know the tools I am able to access. I mean I technically have two research assignments going on but its just a matter of someone emailing or calling me with what I need and that is that. Who knows maybe they will magically decide that they trust all of us and give us a long term project. If not then I need to start finding more speeches and hearings to go to.

Finally I leave you with a funny story. My parents are in Cleveland for a business dinner of some sorts. So she calls me today and asks why so many people are coming and going from her hotel in Anime Costumes. Apparently there is a con at the hotel across from her hotel. She said that she was impressed by the effort in the costumes and was kinda amazed by it. Now she knows what Anime Boston kinda looks like. Oh I need another con to go to. Too bad I am leaving DC before Otakon and I am not going to the Providence Conference because all the panels so far are either doable at any other con or are just boring(the effects of high gas prices and anime conventions anyone?). Until I find something else, its only 11 months until Anime Boston 09.

Watching the US Olympic Track and Field trials right now. When there is track on tv, all is good in the world. When track is on tv for over a week, then things are even better! Its a damn shame that track can't get more tv coverage. Sure its running around in a circle but its a display of athletic ability. If they can show NASCAR on tv then how come we can't get more track? At lease track takes TALENT and ATHLETIC ABILITY, something that the rednecks who watch NASCAR know very little about. But that's enough redneck bashing for now. Aw what the hell, here is a little more. NASCAR is the premier redneck sport. Oh great its rednecks watching other rednecks drive around in a circle for 6 hours. I'd rather be tortured that watch NASCAR. Ok, now we're done with that. Now on to my life.

Once again I sat in my office and did nothing! All I did today was see the guy who founded C-SPAN(Very cool and funny guy) and made a phone call for a copy of a letter(still waiting for it to show up in my email). Seriously, you have six interns in this office(well 4 for next week) and you have nothing for us to do! The new guy is going to redo the website which makes me realize that I probably should of learned HTML so I could of had a project to do this summer. On a slightly sadder note, I went to Kerry's office to visit one of my fellow interns from Kerry's Boston office only to find out that she was not in and to be mistaken for another former Kerry intern with the same name. The senate is a different machine in its own respect. It was kinda weird to walk into Kerry's Office knowing that I almost ended up in that office for the summer but that's alright idk if it would be any better over there. Oh no I said too much about what I do. Once again I state how great it is no one knows about this. The Congress gets super pissy about their interns blogging because you know that some dope is going to give away something that shouldn't be given away. Every time an intern blog gets big it gets shut down as soon as possible. It happened to some girl in Senator Reid's Office because you know she is really releasing serious info like the view from his office or being next to Obama's office. So for the very few of you reading this, KEEP YOUR MOUTHS SHUT or someone is going to have a hissy fit!

Let me just say one thing before I begin. I hate reality tv. I think its stupid, insulting to my intelligence, and not really "reality". With that being said, I love ABC's new reality tv show for one reason and one reason only: It takes place on a Japanese game show! Now I've seen what they are like and knew what to expect. On these shows you have to expect the worse. By the worse I mean ride a tricycle backwards into a wall, bounce into a pool, catch a midget, eat out a girl, and then somehow end up upside down above the audience and get spanked. For the contestants on I Survived a Japanese Game Show, they really didn't know what to expect. Silly Americans signed up for a reality tv show and ended up in Japan on a crazy show. Hell, the show is called Maijade(translates to Seriously?!?). So you have the American reality tv attitude on Japanese game shows. I think that the games are funny(running on a treadmill and having someone above you eat a rice ball on your helmet to name one). Will I watch it again next week? Probably. Its something fun to watch during the summer and a chance to see more of a fucked up game show formula that we can all enjoy. Maybe it would be better if they didn't focus on the player interviews and drama. I just want to see the game and not the people fighting.

So as I watch the Daily Show, I am once again reminded that we have come to an agreement with North Korea concerning their nuclear program. As a President who is gun ho about attacking Iran, why has he changed his tone for North Korea? Is Iran not good enough for diplomacy? Personally, I think that since the Iranian President is most likely going to be voted out of office next summer, lets just run out the clock and worry about the next guy. There is no need to get pissy over someone who has maybe a year left. In addition, he is not even the top guy in the Iranian government so lets not worry about Iran. Lets just do some diplomacy and see where that goes. Then again what do I know? I'm just another intern on the hill.

So the final intern came this week. Nice guy, a little odd but nice. I am unsure if its because that he's completely new to this and is still learning how everything works or if he is just a tad odd. Either way, he gets points for reading some of Runaways. Speaking of which, I picked up the crossover with YA for SI and clearing I am missing something from the past 5-6 issues which I will need to reread anyways when I come home. Some details seem a tad bit unfamiliar but that's alright I am home in roughly 5 weeks so I can catch up with everything. Speaking of home, a friend from home is coming down in July! She'll be here in 4 weeks and it will be nice to have a familiar face down here. Wicked awesome, very wicked awesome. So that's it for know. Things are really low key right now.