Government Shutdown & The Job

1. The Government Shutdown
Is it really a surprise that our country has a difficult time handling natural disasters when its own capital city shuts down with a little ice and snow? Sure its icy, but this is not the 9 feet of snow that they have in upstate New York. You would think the District would be a little more prepared. But who am I to judge when I come from a state that can't properly drain when it gets more than 2 inches of rain.

It was like the Apocolypse today though. At 2pm today, the federal government shut down (though the House is still debating Iraq at 11pm). Not long after, schools closed down too and I was sent home without my daily dose of Criminal Law. I'm not complaining though, and I'm actually crossing my fingers that when I call into the special hotline tomorrow, I will find out that my 9am class is cancelled. Chances look good when "the Weather Service predicts... that the area would have the most significant accumulation of ice on roads and trees since the ice storm of 1999."

2. The Job
I committed today. Kind of felt like an athlete signing with a team, but for far less money (wait, actually no money, but I'll happily take the 6 units, thank you.) This summer I will be working at the Constitution Project. In a nutshell, it is a non-profit bipartisan think tank that does research on big constitutional issues (national security & liberty, war powers acts, separation of branches, and other major issues that are very "in the news" nowadays). They assmeble prominent politicians and jurists into working committees, write amicus briefs, submit op-eds into major papers, hold panels, and have their members tesitfy infront of Congress.

After (1) having a good interview & liking the people who work there (2) having everyone tell me that this place seems "right up your alley" and (3) hearing my constitutional law professor tell me that it would be a great place for me to work, I decided to quickly accept their equally as quick offer. Many more blogs on this, I'm sure, for the next few months.