Week 2

First things first, GO GIANTS !!

Amazing game. Peyton and Eli – back to back champions. INSANE. Patriots 19-0?? YEAH RIGHT. Too bad, Brady, maybe in another 30something years.

Okay, I’m finished with my gloating. I desperately wish I was back home in New York to celebrate. However, I did enjoy my week here in D.C. The past few days at The National Whistleblowers Center and Kohn, Kohn & Colapinto have been great – I got to start writing a draft of the Relator’s Statement for a new case, and it was so exciting to write a legal document that’s actually going to be filed in court.

Over the weekend my friends and I decided to explore D.C., and we had an awesome time. On Friday night we decided to go into Adam’s Morgan, a really cute part of town that’s filled with so many other twenty-something year olds. Here’s a picture of my good friend and me that night.

We went into a place with live bands playing and it was so much fun. On Saturday afternoon we did the whole tourist thing: we went to see the White House, Washington Monument, World War II Memorial, walked along the Reflection Pool, and stopped by the Lincoln Memorial. Here we are in front of the White House.

Everything there looks so much better at night. I definitely want to go back to the Washington Monument one night when the weather gets warmer, it was probably my favorite stop.

I just got back from class and the Law & Criminal Justice program lecture for the week, and John J. Miller of the FBI came to speak to us. He looked so familiar when he walked in, and it turns out he was a news anchor in New York. He had such an interesting career – he began working in the media at age fourteen and has worked for the NYPD, then back to media, and then back to LAPD, and then to the FBI. The most interesting thing though was that he interviewed Osama Bin Laden in 1998, where Bin Laden pretty much declared war on the United States, and 7-8 weeks later the embassy bombings occurred. It was a really great lecture, and I definitely learned a lot from it.

But, the biggest news of today – Super Tuesday! Unfortunately I was late in getting an absentee ballot, so I wasn’t able to vote. It’s probably for the best though, since I’m still not 100% on who I want to vote for. I really wanted Giuliani, but obviously that isn’t happening. News of the “recession” were pretty big today too… and interest rates keep getting cut, but hopefully that’ll encourage more spending and stimulate the economy without bringing about too much inflation. I better get going and hit the gym – all this exploration of D.C. is ruining my diet. Plus, I took my celebration of the Giants victory a little too far by gorging on junk food. :) Next Monday Villanova plays Georgetown in basketball, so hopefully it’ll result in a big win too!