• Started working with Voto Latino helping out with their marketing/outreach efforts
• Attended my first press conference with Janet Napolitano
• Traveled to San Francisco to attend DreamForce and visited @laura at the Twitter office
• Finally got to visit New York City (get a rope) and attended an interesting event hosted by MTV3.  I did get to stay in Times Square, though.  Oh, as I was walking to Penn Station, I ran into Carmen, my old coworker (out of all the people in NYC)!

As for the day-to-day living, it’s actually been quite surprising.  The neighborhood I live in (Takoma) is very suburban. I got my haircut at a barber shop straight up from the movies.  The cape that Calvin (the barber) put on me was an African print. I feel accepted.

The people here are actually quite nice and are always there to lend a helping hand to a Texan.

That’s another thing.  People love it when I say I’m from Texas (even though they still have a bitter taste in their mouth).

Aside from the random threats that DC’ers are used to (including a guy shouting how he hated the federal government on the metro all the way home), it’s a sophisticated town.

With that said, I still miss everything in Austin.  The food.  The friends. And, of course, my family.

I needed this though and I’m enjoying it!