A couple fun things happened at work last week. One night my office had its annual holiday dinner. We rented a room at a restaurant near the hill and had a good meal. Several hours, and bottles of wine, into the night, someone realized we were one of only two groups left in the restaurant, and the other was a group of two senators (names withheld to protect the innocent). A co-worker invited them into our room and we had a few more drinks and listened to their stories, which was pretty interesting as one had been a longtime senator who had run for President, is retiring this year, and had given his farewell address to the Senate that day.
Also last week, our office was moving to a larger space, and we spent most of last week packing. One of my favorite episodes of the TV show the West Wing is at the end when Alan Alda's character returns to his Senate office as a retiring member after losing the presidential election, and he has to pack away everything. It just so happened that last week, the boss and I met with Alan Alda, and when he come into the office he commented about how our office looked like the set of show at the very end.
You probably think I am a dork, but for a lot of people like me in DC, these are pretty neat events.
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