I hear you about e-mailing Raffi. I'm being added to more enemy lists every day for not returning e-mails. Perhaps it's the volume a day that I get. So few are ones that I want.
Anyway, I'm in DC. I was MIA for a while because I hadn't settled in just yet, and quite frankly I'm still not completely. But at least I'm at the point where I can now breathe. My first week down here was tough because I jumped right into work. And the lucky office that now has me: the Armenian National Committee of America. Yes, Arsineh has turned to politics... cuz design, editing, photography and AYF work weren't enough.
I'm gonna try not to talk to much about specifics with my work, because I really don't want to use this as a forum for spreading our issues. However, I'll probably bring up major events as they come. For example, we just held a presentation on Capitol Hill of the BBC documentary of the Armenian Genocide: The Betrayed. This was a 45 minute documentary that aired on BBC 2 in GB last month. They did a FANTASTIC job and the correspondent that covered the political portion of the video in Washington was at the presentation last Friday to speak on the documentary. Approximately 50 Hill staffer attended and it was a tremendous success. Though, there are more successes to come.
Other news, I had to take the Metro into work today because the streets I follow to work were closed down. Some guy with a tractor drove it into a pond and is surrounded by security men up the wazoo. I guess he's threatening to set off explosives. Now the US is under code orange (high alert) and all they can talk about on the news is the deadline for Saddam Hussein to vacate Iraq. They even have the deadline countdown ticker in the corner of the screen on CNN. Please. I'm so tired of listening to Ari Fleischer bs his way through press conferences (excuse my implication of vulgarity).
I'll admit it's somewhat frightening to be down the street from the White House during all of this. But at the same time, I feel a little bit more safe with the jacked up security all over the city. But I wouldn't mind driving into work tomorrow, so if anyone knows the guy who parked his tractor in a pond, can you tell him to just keep moving?
Anyway, I'm in DC. I was MIA for a while because I hadn't settled in just yet, and quite frankly I'm still not completely. But at least I'm at the point where I can now breathe. My first week down here was tough because I jumped right into work. And the lucky office that now has me: the Armenian National Committee of America. Yes, Arsineh has turned to politics... cuz design, editing, photography and AYF work weren't enough.
I'm gonna try not to talk to much about specifics with my work, because I really don't want to use this as a forum for spreading our issues. However, I'll probably bring up major events as they come. For example, we just held a presentation on Capitol Hill of the BBC documentary of the Armenian Genocide: The Betrayed. This was a 45 minute documentary that aired on BBC 2 in GB last month. They did a FANTASTIC job and the correspondent that covered the political portion of the video in Washington was at the presentation last Friday to speak on the documentary. Approximately 50 Hill staffer attended and it was a tremendous success. Though, there are more successes to come.
Other news, I had to take the Metro into work today because the streets I follow to work were closed down. Some guy with a tractor drove it into a pond and is surrounded by security men up the wazoo. I guess he's threatening to set off explosives. Now the US is under code orange (high alert) and all they can talk about on the news is the deadline for Saddam Hussein to vacate Iraq. They even have the deadline countdown ticker in the corner of the screen on CNN. Please. I'm so tired of listening to Ari Fleischer bs his way through press conferences (excuse my implication of vulgarity).
I'll admit it's somewhat frightening to be down the street from the White House during all of this. But at the same time, I feel a little bit more safe with the jacked up security all over the city. But I wouldn't mind driving into work tomorrow, so if anyone knows the guy who parked his tractor in a pond, can you tell him to just keep moving?
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