Diary of a Library of Congress Intern

Ten weeks as a Library of Congress intern...

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Location: Washington, DC, United States

Monday

July 18

Nothing too exciting for a Monday morning. CD processing and, while I’m working, CD listening. I listened to a variety of stuff today: The White Stripes, Heather Headley, Willie Nelson & friends, The Happytones, Paul Wright (again – I’ve listened to him a few times now) and Destiny’s Child. I didn’t really notice while I was listening but apparently Paul Wright is a Christian singer. Way to ruin my enjoyment, Google.

At 2pm, We had our big PARTY for the 135th anniversary of Copyright moving to the Library, which meant a cake and some punch. The cake was okay – the punch was better. Mainly it was an opportunity for us Jr. Fellows to get our pictures taken over and over and over and over again. Great fun. We also got to chit-chat with the students in the other divisions, which was interesting and which made me really sad, actually. I mean, their jobs seem so much more interesting than mine. Even listening to music gets boring when all you basically have to choose from is Christian rock and Spanish music. Sure, I know, I mention all kinds of other stuff I listen to but the vast majority of the stuff fits into those two other categories.

On a totally different topic, you guys might have noticed I finally learned how to post pictures and so some have been added to my blog. It’s not like it took all that much learning but it was more a matter of only having dial-up at my house and not having 3 hours to kill just to upload one picture. It finally occurred to me to just burn them to a CD and do it at work. (During my many allotted breaks, of course.) So far I have posted some of the trip to Baltimore on July 3rd and the fireworks on July 4th, as well as this weekend's trip to the Air & Space Museum. More to come.

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