An occasional perk of this new job is getting to go to interesting events/lectures/trainings that the important people at work can't go to, so they ask me to cover for them. I'm basically the Andre Buckner here. Oooh, actually let's stay away from Duke references for now (I've already ranted enough about Duke for one day). Let's just say I'm like the Secretary of Agriculture in the line of succession. Anywho, last night I went to a screening of an HBO documentary on global warming that airs on Earth Day, naturally. You remember global warming, right? It's going to make this happen:

I won't comment too much on the actual documentary other than to say it kind of sucked. Really HBO? I know you're trying to educate people but a lot of us learned this stuff in 4th grade. Let's work on persuasion, not just education mmkay? But who cares about the learnin'-there were celebrities to behold. Well, DC celebrities anyway. Senators Lieberman & McCain were there as well as some Congressmen and Mayor Williams. But the awesome part was the presence of several Kennedys, including RFK Jr. and his mommy Ethel. I may be a big dork (strike that may be, replace with am), but seeing a Camelot era Kennedy was pretty exciting.

A not so fun aspect of this job is telling campaigns that we aren't going to endorse them. It's not so bad when you're not planning on endorsing anyone but it's particularly uncomfortable when you have to tell them that you're endorsing their opponent. AWKWARD! So I decided to follow up those calls with ones to all the candidates we are supporting to end the day on a high note. They're so happy and nice to me, and that's all I really ask of a person is to be nice to me. And shower me with praise and gifts. Is that so wrong?