Spotted: DC Summer Interns
The incredible blog that tracks even more incredibly ridiculous DC intern stories.
A few highlights below, but it's updated regularly and totally worth reading:
1. spotted: pizza party
Donning pink suits that would make Elle Woods proud, an intern in my office was quickly given the nickname "Tinkerbell" for her ability to flutter all around the office and wear enough bright colors and flashy accessories that she was bound to leave a glitter trail behind her.Aside from telling us how much she spent on her daily cab ride to Rayburn because she "just couldn't do the metro," the pièce de résistance was on the Congressman's birthday.
Thinking that because it was a birthday there therefore must be a party, planned by her, she proceeded to order five pizzas for the office telling all the LA's that (unbeknownst to the Chief of Staff) there would be a birthday party in the Chief of Staff's office at lunchtime. The pizzas arrived and as we all (too late) lunged after her, she threw open the door to the Congressman's office without even a knock, open pizza box in hand, loudly announcing "Happy Birthday! We're having a pizza party in [Chief of Staff's] office!!" To which the Congressman replied (after a moment of awkward silence) something along the lines of "Oh, wow, well I think you'll have to do that without me."
2. spotted: cliff notes
Two red-badge toting interns sharing a copy of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations...Cliffs Notes version.
I won't bother elaborating further.
My personal favorite DC intern moment from last summer is when I was on the metro and overheard this one guy talking to someone he just met complaining that his internship at an apparently high-rolling lobbying firm didn't even pay for his dry cleaning service. That night, I cried into my ramen.
ReplyDeletekent, i just laughed so hard. but then i noticed who wrote the post...... come on, kent, you know that for the price of DC ramen you can be eating a feast on the streets of jakarta! (it's the immodium that gets expensive. imported. the good stuff.)
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