Experienced my first weekend in DC a couple days ago. Since I'm not 21 I can't hit up the bars yet, but I had a good touring of the city. Saturday I was on a double-decker bus most of the day and saw most of the city. While I have seen a lot of the National Mall, I hadn't seen much of the downtown/uptown area i.e. Embassy Row and Georgetown, so that was nice. Monday we went to the American History Museum which had been renovated for the last two years or so. The displays are really good. The American Presidency and Americans at War are my favorite, but they didn't seem too updated from when I seen them last. It was still fun regardless. I also finally saw The Hurt Locker Monday night and that was really good.
On Monday, Ryan, my project leader, was out of the office so all that I really did was proofread the whole assessment. Luckily, I found a few mistakes out of the 69 pages. Today, there was a lot to do. I'm sending out a lot of letters to people with copies of our assessment and invitations to our roll out event. I even sent a letter of Sec Gates today. My biggest project today was working on sending out invites to the 27 Ambassadors of NATO countries. I had to call the French Ambassador's office to get his e-mail address. It was scary when the assistant picked up the phone and spoke French. Luckily I knew I could start speaking English and she'll switch over, but if I had been younger I might have thought that I called the wrong number and called someone in France. That would have been a disaster.
Anyway, if you have been keeping up with me, you know there is a roll-out event for our paper on NATO's potential capabilities in Afghanistan in a couple days. Well right now I'm working on logistics for the event. Eventually after the roll-out I assume I'll be working on research for the next Afghanistan paper. The roll-out of the paper is on the 26th of January before the 28th conference in London on Afghanistan. Anyway, I have to go to bed. I'll have more to write about after General Petraeus visits our Center on Friday.
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