Today I got up at 430 for bootcamp again... next went to my  internship. Then I went to the Racquet club to get some work done and to Bikram yoga. You could see the sky gleaming yellow and could hear the tornado sirens blaring during class but the instructor didn't really seem to care and continued on as if all was chipper in the world. Then at the end, she was like okay, actually, let's get out in the hallway so the whole class shuffled out and just kind of stood against the wall. It was very dramatic - she had said they had never stopped a class before and I felt like I was witnessing a historic moment, not really since I was just at the White House when Obama, or should I say O'bama announced Bin Laden was dead but historic is sort of an objective term one might say...

Alright, anyway - in honor of Kathryn being in DC, I thought it would be only appropriate to reminisce about my top moments living in that wonderful city.

Seeing the Dalai Lama attempting to bring the visor back in style

Jane Lynch walking by

Standing next to the cast of Glee's table at the HRC dinner and hearing LM sing

Obama speaking at HRC dinner 

Lady Gaga performing John Lennon's Imagine at HRC dinner

Walking with TN at the equal rights rally

Getting on the Jay Leno show after eating a "snoop dog brownie" and looking into the camera to say "forshizle"

Eating at Spike from Top Chef's restaurant 

Giving Chelsea Handler chocolate covered matzah for Passover

Watching them shoot Transformers 3 on the mall and briefly talking with Michael Bay

Seeing David Gregory around campus

Being on the other side of this fence with the press for Rally to Restore Sanity

Set the night before for Stephen Colbert and John Stewart's rally

Press section

Going to the Mark Twain awards and seeing Tina Fey, Betty White, Fred Armisen, Steve Martin, Jon Hamm, Tracy Morgan, Lorne Michaels, Jane Krakowski, Steve Carell and Jennifer Hudson

Interviewing Mary Carillo 

Going to Elton John and Billy Jean King's tournament, press conference and shooting from the court 

Sitting with Navratilova, Philppoussis, Stubbs, Billie Jean King, Gambill, Anna Kournikova, Agassi, Steffi Grad and Elton John with Pam Shriver auctioneering

Being part of a counter protest when the Westburo Baptist Church came to protest on the AU campus - largest crowd I've ever seen at college

Hearing Michelle Rhee speak

Going down to the White House and standing on the gate right after Pres. Obama announced Bin Laden was dead

Taking a free pilates class on the top of the Swedish Embassy overlooking the Hudson river

Photographing Colin Powell when he came into the ATV studio

Eating at THE LOBSTER TRUCK!

 In addition to being on Capitol Hill in Congressman Cohen's office during the healthcare final vote (and fielding the very interesting phone calls), Editing a midterm election video and staying at the Washington Post until midnight as the election results came in, too many neat things happen in the capitol of this country. Anyway, I love DC and the opportunities it provides.. It appears this was more of me boasting than reminiscing ... BUT I wish you well in DC Kwaggs,  don't get too caught up in the political drama that is Washington

Oh MAN, last night was crazy. Just kidding, I went to sleep at 9:30. I think I should just not blog when nothing exciting happens so I can remain mysterious and people will assume I'm too busy doing interesting things to sit at my computer and type a few grammatically incorrect paragraphs.

So yesterday, I got up at 4:30... went to boot camp where we ran up and down the University of Memphis parking garage. It was fun, especially when I put my hand down on the ground to do pushups on one the levels and stuck it right on a cigarette butt.

I didn't go into my internship yesterday because I had to take some staff photos at the Racquet Club. I also had to finish the employee handbook I have been working on so overall it was a productive morning... I also learned how to bind! Kinkos aint going nothing on me... except better printing quality and a friendly and knowledgeable staff. I was going to drive over to Murfreesburo TN yesterday to watch St.Mary's tennis play in the semis of state but that didn't quite work out since i don't have a car. It's hard to road trip without one.

Sat in the stadium for a half hour waiting to take the staff picture

I got really bored waiting for the RC staff to come and was looking around and noticed the railing is basically held up by a plastic tie thing.. cool

I kicked it and found that yes indeed, it was not sturdy in the least and it would be easy to fall to your demise

This is the desk I sit at in the tennis office where I spend my days... mostly complaining, sometimes doing work..

Oh, but look at what was discovered in the back office... this temporarily halts my complaining..

Here is the 18 page book I made/designed/bound... good times, it was tons of fun.(no)

A glance at one of the pages...

I went to lunch @Luchesi's and the production staff from Food Network, who I recognized from when the Waggoners and I went food truck hunting the other night, all walked in shortly after. They were all male and had a lot of tattoos. I decided if I want to get into TV perhaps I should conform a little, obviously on what I can, which would just be the tattoo aspect of the two things I listed. I'm sorry, I think a list has to be at least three things, but as I previously stated, these paragraphs has bad grammar.

I ran from the Racquet Club over to Kathryn's house and it started pouring and there was a tornado warning in the process of my turtle-pace jog and I got drenched. It's okay though because I just looked like I was sweating a lot from being so intense.

After I hitched a ride in a beast of a car, aka my mother picked me up in the golden mini van with 1 automatic door (which I wrote a rap about in middle school) <--that will be included once I find it, which will be once I clean my room, which will be never-- I came home, made myself dinner - attempted to watch a tutorial online of how to animate graphics while simultaneously soaking in all the knowledge one can gain by watching Real Housewives of the OC (which is like -8).

Mom came home later, saw me sprawled out on the couch, told me she was surprised I was not already asleep and I groggily agreed it was getting very late. Then I looked at the clock and it was 8:30. And then I went out to the club. Just kidding.


Until my next set of awesome adventures ---

Sylvia

Last night I ate 13 cookies from the Pepperidge Farm variety pack. As I told Kathryn, I made those cookies my bitch (excuse the language) Oh and this is a lovely view of one (of my 2) misshapen thumbs .. neato