As I await for code to run, thought I would post something.\u00a0 Just a rundown of a good week, so maybe not be the most interesting.\u00a0 But my blog, my rules.<\/p>\n
Right now Princeton in is on “intersession.”\u00a0 Basically the week between first and second semester (yes, second semester hasn’t started yet).\u00a0 SLU played at GW this week, so I decided to make a midweek trip to DC.<\/p>\n
I went down Tuesday morning.\u00a0 Got to DC.\u00a0 I never really had favorite DC restaurants, so to have a meal I missed, I went to a hot dog vendor I always used to go to and had a half smoke with cheese and hot sauce.\u00a0 Ate in Marvin Center (GW’s version of a student union) and headed over to the political science department.<\/p>\n
There I got to see Sarah (GW Adviser) and a few other professors.\u00a0 It was simply nice to sit down and catch up a little, and I received a little advice about how to handle academic things.\u00a0 I don’t know if it is because they are from the same department, but advice was similar regarding a variable I wasn’t weighing as much.\u00a0\u00a0 GW’s professors have always been good to me (there is one I think that doesn’t like me much, but I concede it is deserved as I was stubborn when in their class).\u00a0 In a sign of good meetings, things ran over and I was a little late getting to my old work at the DLCC.<\/p>\n
At the DLCC, Matt (communications director and now the manager of DLCCWeb) and I went downstairs to a bar and got a couple of beers.\u00a0 We talked DLCCWeb, DLCC, and updates in life.\u00a0 There were positives and of course some negatives.\u00a0 However once again in a sign of a good conversation, we ran long.\u00a0 So I didn’t get to catch up with others at the DLCC.<\/p>\n
I then met a Princeton friend, Jeff.\u00a0 We grabbed a beer and then dinner in Gallery Place.\u00a0 We talked some shop, but the conversation was dominated by just life conversation.\u00a0 Sometimes in the academic world, it is hard to get away from inside baseball.\u00a0 I wish Jeff was still at Princeton, but he is happy in DC.\u00a0 It again was good to catch up a bit.\u00a0 We walked to GW to get my car, I dropped him off at his car, and then I finally made it to Nathan and Jessica’s (I went to GW with Jessie, and Nathan and I were roommates my last year in DC).\u00a0 Nathan played some video games and Jessie studied Milton for her oral exam tomorrow as we caught up.<\/p>\n
The next morning, I went back to the DLCC to see the people I missed.\u00a0 There I was introduced to the new DLCC Field Director, and she told me about a conference the next day that tied together campaign and academic politics.\u00a0 Basically a number of presentations of experiments done by campaigns.\u00a0 They invited me to come, and I said I would think about it.<\/p>\n
I then had lunch with Jessie at Fuddruckers, talking about school, friends weddings, etc.\u00a0 Then downed a few pitchers with Nathan before heading to SLU v. GW.\u00a0 I was in GW gear, but instincts sometimes take over.\u00a0 I went to a SLU Alumni reception where I got to see my old <\/strong><\/em>friend Greg from Billikens.com.\u00a0 We had a few drinks, talked basketball, work, Billikens.com.\u00a0 The university president of SLU, Father Biondi, was there who I met for the first time.\u00a0 I won a hat and got a cup that changes colors.<\/p>\n SLU played a good game for about 36 minutes, then pretty much blew it.\u00a0 Greg and I sat down behind the bench with the Father right behind us.\u00a0 SLU lost in overtime after being ahead by about 13 points.\u00a0 The team is young, but it was a disappointing loss for them.\u00a0 However it was fun to be back in the Smith Center.<\/p>\n The next day I went to the conference at the AFL-CIO.\u00a0 It was well done, and it generated a few research ideas.\u00a0 One of the things I worry about by being away from DC is that some of my best research ideas come from professional politics conversations.\u00a0 So I hope to keep as many ties to the beltway as I can.\u00a0 Not only to maintain friendships, but to maintain a grasp on what is going on in elections and campaigns.\u00a0 It was amusing though, since one of the presenters was someone who I knew from Princeton.\u00a0 It was just a complete blending of the two sides of politics in my life.<\/p>\n By staying an extra day, that gave me the opportunity to have dinner with Vicky and her gentleman, who are a happy couple.\u00a0 I also learned Vicky has the power to rename streets in the database Google Maps pulls from, which I find to be kinda awesome.<\/p>\n I swung back to Jessie and Nathan’s, where we all procrastinated a bit.\u00a0 I headed back to Princeton that night.<\/p>\n Overall it was a pretty nice trip.\u00a0 While I didn’t see as many GW folk as I would like, it was a week full of\u00a0 college friends, SLU Basketball, Academia, and professional politics. Probably one of my best trips back to DC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As I await for code to run, thought I would post something.\u00a0 Just a rundown of a good week, so maybe not be the most interesting.\u00a0 But my blog, my rules. Right now Princeton in is on “intersession.”\u00a0 Basically the week between first and second semester (yes, second semester hasn’t started yet).\u00a0 SLU played at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332,"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions\/332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.steverogers.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}