I am in LA. Quite a wild first day. I arrived at 9 am and my first stop was In n Out for a nice Cheesburger and fries. I thought I could wait longer than that, but apparently not. From there, straight to the ANCA office (Western Region) because work never stops just because you leave town. :) However, I only went there to meet with all the others to go to a Dodgers game. Dodgers lost, but I had a blast anyway. The rest of the day was just about catching up with people. I sat in on a meeting with representatives from the "Save the Children" project in Armenia. They do such great work, it's a shame something like this could suffer because of aid cuts to Armenia. Yeah, thanks Bush.

Today I have been at the office all day with a nice Zankou Chicken lunch. And tonight I go to my cousin's engagement pre-party... because one simple party isn't enough.

It's good to be away from DC, but the politics follows me and I already have had many discussions about what's going on in Washington, Iraq, etc. It's a nice change to hear opinions of people outside of DC on political topics.

I have yet to contact everyone I know, but there's still plenty of time... so if you haven't heard from me, sorry.