This past work week has been a blur--I began researching for several of the new cases my attorney is working on, and we get so caught up in familiarizing ourselves with the all the relevant regulations and administrations that we completely lose track of everything else. Our office looks like a giant stack of paperwork, but it is so exciting to contribute real substance to the cases. Happy hour has become a staple during the work week, and last week I went to Mr. Smith's in Georgetown. Its interior is set up like a big garden party, with lights and ivy trimming the walls, brick flooring, patio furniture, and it even turns into a piano bar at around 10 PM. It also has some great deals, which is a hard find in Georgetown. Over the weekend my roommates, some friends and I went to R&R, a chic lounge on 6th street, which was loads of fun.
We also went to the Holocaust Memorial Museum, and it was incredibly moving. Some of the exhibits amazed me - like the short film explaining the cruel "medical experiments" performed on prisoners, and a scaled model of the gas chambers' systematic killing. The grainy black and white stills that document the horror of the Holocaust can evoke strong emotions within any individual with a conscience, but it's ironic that those sentiments are only a fraction of the terror that the "non Aryan" race experienced. Going through the museum was both mentally and physically exhausting, but it is definitely one of my top recommendations of places to go in DC.
On Saturday, I assisted my supervisor interview potential summer interns from Georgetown and George Washington Law Schools. It was definitely a little weird sitting on the other side of the table, but I picked up some great interview tips and met other professionals in the legal arena. So even though I had to get up at 6:30 AM on a Saturday, it was definitely worth it.
I also went to the Nova vs. Georgetown game at the Verizon Center this week, and although we cheered the Wildcats on like no other, we failed to pull through. With 30 seconds left on the clock, it was tied at 53 and we had the ball, but when the ref made the most ridiculous call with .1 second to go, Georgetown made two free throws, and the overtime win that should have been ours slipped away.
My brother-in-law was watching the game on TV, and said that even the commentators remarked that the ref's call was faulty (so I'm not being completely biased). When we go to the ball games at Villanova, we usually sit right behind the basket in the student section, however this time around, we sat way, way, way up in the arena. Here's a picture of the court from our nosebleed section seats.
It would have been nice to win against Georgetown and to seal off the top wins of the week (i.e. the Giants and McCain), but it was still a great game. Well I've blabbed on enough about my week and my delivered groceries have finally arrived, so I better run. But I'll definitely come back next week with news and photos of my birthday weekend!
No comments:
Post a Comment