Well, hello there. Welcome to my official blog about my life as a 29 year old Congressional intern.
Let me make something clear at the outset: I'll try my best to limit the self indulgent, self-righteous tone that plagues so many blogs. At first I was quite judgmental of folks who spilled their guts online, writing as if they were the only ones who have ever felt this or that emotion. Or worse yet, reading blogs where people engage in one-upsmanship or try to show they are so much more clever than the rest of us by citing some obscure popular culture reference in a manner that reads "everyone knows this."
I have recently grown more tolerant of this behavior, though, as I have realized we all just want somebody to listen and acknowledge our dreams and our fears. And this is the point and the theme of this blog: how one man at age 29 can give up security in pursuit of a dream (or at least pursuit of something more fulfilling than processing reimbursement requests). The blog is of course for anybody who wants to read it, but really it's a place for me to chronicle the next four months of my life as a Capitol Hill intern.
Today is Monday, August, 25, 2008, and I have one more day of security. Tomorrow, I leave my job as a budget analyst, try to sell all my earthly belongings, and pack for the great trek east. Come Saturday I will fly to Washington, D.C., take a cab to my buddy's place, pump up my air mattress, and ready myself for the shark tank that is Capitol Hill. I'm really stoked.
J.G.
