So, I had my hair cut a day before I left Kodiak. My mom let me have a trim, so it's not a crew cut and it's not hippie hair either. She also thought my goatee made me look mature so she recommended I keep it. So I got all packed up and on Friday, got on the plane to Anchorage on, Alaska only a few hours after my sister's German boyfriend arrived.

I arrived there and stayed with my great-aunt and uncle for the night. They mostly gave me a lot of pizza, barbequed pork, cookies and donuts, which totally rocked!

I then got on the plane to Seattle. Only a few minutes in, (before we had even taken off,) I knew there were going to be problems because there was a French guy who kept on "accidentally" touching my butt. It was unusually empty, so I was allowed to move to one of the many empty rows. The French guy was indignant.

I stayed in Seattle for about four hours. During that time, the Seattle folk seemed strangely attracted to the news about my state's governor, (Sarah Palin,) resigning. I was used to it, because the news was repeating so much that I couldn't care less. The only thing that interests me about this whole thing is the speculation that Palin will want to take Murkowski's spot in the senate. If this is true, it would be political suicide, seeing as how the former mayor of Wasilla/2.5 year-termed governor would feel qualified to take over for a locally more-popular figure that I now work for.

So yes, the four-hour trip from Seattle to Washington was miserable. Riding coach for that long is dreadful and a small child in front of me kept on screaming. The only good thing that came was that I was sitting next to a hot girl who was getting ready to party in D.C.

I got into Washington forty minutes early and met up with the other interns and the coordinators. They told us to be safe, but they weren't our babysitters or friends. When my roommate and I settled into our dorms, we went into the halls and were pulled into a crowd of drunk Latino girls who wanted to get us drunk and do God-knows-what to us. So they handed us beers, and me being underage and all, pretended to consume and get hammered like them. So in short, I only let them get cuddly. I didn't like the idea of getting headline news of "MURKOWSKI INTERN FOUND WITH BODY OF DEAD, DRUNKEN AND SEEMINGLY NAKED CALIFORNIAN INTERN!!!"

So yeah, I haven't seen any of them this morning because they're probably having pretty bad hangovers and the only visible remnants of their existence is the waist-level pile of beer cans in the hall.

But, you are probably interested in my actual D.C. experience! So I start work in the Heart of the Capitol building tomorrow. Today was basically an activity day with exploring D.C. Well, I basically got up-close everything in the Federal Triangle except the White House, the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial. It's been a real treat to get to experience so much history and culture first-hand and I hope that this is only the beginning. I am very interested to see how Palin's resignation will affect my job and how the senator will react as well. I took a ton of pictures which I WILL upload to SK for everyone to see.

Keep an eye pealed for next week.