Friday, Weekend 2, and Tuesday, Wednesday (W3)

Friday, I worked the voting machine again for bills on more appropriation bills and an impeachment.  There were four articles they were voting on individually for the impeachment of a Texas district court judge, i believe, who had apparently molested some of his staff members.  I also had the late night shift on Friday but, since it was Friday and all the congress members leave for home, I didn't have to report work after dinner.  So Friday went smoothly.  We went to 6 Flags on Saturday in Maryland.  It was sort of awkward considering there were a bunch of little kids running around and bugs bunny and tweety were dancing but we made due.  It was also flash raining so were were forced to occasionally dash under a ring toss stand or into a Johnny Rocket's.  It would start raining so quickly and randomly it was like a snap of your fingers.  We made a sprint for Batman and Superman when they let these two little kids "turn the power on," and we didn't take it into account that it was raining.  Anthony epically wiped out with his body nearly parallel with the ground.  Now, Tony is like 6'6" and 210 lbs so it was a pretty ridiculous.   We ended up riding Batman twice and the Joker twice while dodging the rain so it wasn't so bad.  After lunch it cleared up and before we left, Blair and I got henna tattoos.  Mine's real small and on my leg ma so don't freak out.  One kid got a "property of the GOP" on his arm and Blair got "Teddy" (our nickname for him coming from teddy-blair) on his arm.  We got back from 6 flags around 4ish and we all slept when we got back.  Sunday, we stayed in.  I did wash and wrote two papers which were my homework from school.  One was about an action plan about an issue in our town and I chose to write about the old Acme.  My other was on a bunch of leadership question Dr. Gonzalez asked us to address.  After we all watched Animal House.  On Monday, they weren't in session we all relaxed for the whole day in the "member's only " day room.  We watched the Curious Case of Benjamin Button, but I really don't remember much because I fell asleep, as did about 20 other people.  They resumed session on tuesday with the appropriations and began talks on the monster healthcare bill.  I went with another page on an annex run to the Ford Building before lunch.  The Ford Building isn't considered to be in the immediate  House Capitol Complex because it is a couple blocks west of the Rayburn building but we took the shuttle to and from the building.  The Ford building was pretty awkward because it is mostly made up of the random offices for security and some legislative offices.  The building itself is very nondescript compared to the  marble laden office buildings and the sculpted Capitol.  I worked in the office of legislative duties again for late-night and ran the votes machine.  They were voting on the Appropriations for the DOD and the interior.  I was somewhat disappointed to find that I'm going to be doing runs for wednesday and thursday.  However the day did end in some hope when I realized I am doing votes again on Friday when they  could be voting on the ever-important healthcare bill.