Theta Convention!

Our Chapter Flag!

All of our Convention Girls

Tucson Arizona!

This weekend I went to Tucson with my sorority for our national convention. It was so fun and I was so glad to see everyone before I leave for my semester abroad!

When I arrived I made friends with the Yale president because she was here by herself and so much fun! We talked about the huge differences between our chapters and then I introduced her to the other OU girls and we asked her about secret societies (P.S. some of them pay for your grad school!) The convention was a lot of talking and sisterhood but it was also so fun to be with my friends all weekend!

We had dinner with some girls from Purdue who had a horrible time getting to the resort because of bad weather. They had to fly into Phoenix instead (where the Kappa convention was happening) and then take a 2 hour shuttle to Tucson with no bags! I let them wear my dresses the next day and shoes because all they had were t-shirts and were very nice.

I learned a lot and it really made me appreciate the history of Theta and how diverse every chapter is. We were one of the largest groups there and ended up winning 6 awards which was so great since they don't give out many! Even OU's Panhellenic won an award and Norman Alumnae chapter too.

It was a fun break from working and I was so privileged to be able to attend.

At Work with Ted Leonsis!

With Ted, the Owner of the Washington Capitols, Wizards, and Mystics and a Cofounder of AOL!

Today Ted Leonsis came in to talk about his new book and he was so cool! He was very inspiring and I kinda felt like I was at a camp listening to a motivational speaker, so now we all need to go make our lists of everything we want to accomplish before the end of our life and have the motivation and faith to do it!

I will be working on mine tomorrow with Sarah and will update this with some highlights and any suggestions can be added to my comments section!

Around the City with Friends

Friends out shopping!

Sunday I took the bus for the first time and it was like unlocking a great door to let me get into the city without having to park! Glorious!

I went to Dupont to meet up with Ashley Zumwalt (who was visiting for the weekend), Madelyn and Dana. First I went to the farmers market and got some fresh veggies which was great, then we went to Zorba's for some Greek food. We had the best baklava ever and when we were leaving this crazy lady came up to us asking for us to go shopping through her suitcase. Dana was too nice to say no so we followed her over and had an awkward few minutes, but it was an experience!

Then we thought we were supposed to get on the metro when really we should have been walking where we were going and so we proceeded to run up the downwards escalator so that we didn't have to ride down two-flights then back up. Luckily no one fell but we did almost run into one lady who was riding. Whoops!

We ended up walking the wrong way just to get on a metro somewhere else, so it was all in vain but was still a fun story!

Next we went shopping in Chinatown and got some frozen yogurt (which is a big step for me because I had never tried the fruity flavors before). Then Ashley and Madelyn headed out so Dana and I went to Barnes and Noble in Georgetown for awhile but then she had to head out so I stayed and read for about an hour where I had a bizarre sequence of people join me at my table to read.

The first girl just sat and didn't say anything but kept staring around the room instead of reading so it was distracting. The second girl asked if she could sit with me, sat down, and then started crying and talking to her mom in another language for like 20 minutes! I obviously did not get a lot of reading done so I went back to meet Madelyn for dinner at Zed's on M street. It was a very adventurous day for me, greek, ethiopian, and fruity fro-yo all in one day!

At a Private Colbie Caillat Concert!

With Colbie at the Event

She's so cute!

We were basically right next to her!

With her guitar player!

So today was a rough day at work. We had to come in at 11:30, get Starbucks, have a little meeting then head off to Chinatown for the concert!

Rebecca got an invite from the popular Tommy McFly in DC to come to this private event today for Colbie Caillat, and she didn't know who she was, so I told her and said I wanted to go! So we all went and had such a fun time! She was so sweet and chill and it was so much fun! It was sweet because she was actually nervous talking in public!

After the event we basically had the day off and went for mexican at a great place there with the radio people! Tomorrow all of our work will be completed on our laptops by the pool, so as you can see I'm leading a rough life right now!

In the Projects

For obvious reasons I don't have a lot of pictures from this trip to Price Georges County for work! I have been working the night shift for the past week with Rebecca and Sarah so we have been doing live shots at 10 and 11pm.

Monday night we went to report on a fallen officer from the county to show his makeshift memorial out of his car. When we arrived around 9pm no one was there and we were supposed to look for people to interview. So, when people came out of the house we approached them to ask if someone wanted to and an older man told us he didn't mind us being there but we needed to move so that they could "hang out" and not shoot the house. Then he told us that only "Big Sexy" did the interviews around there and we met him. He was very sweet, like 6'5 tall guy who told us he would go put a shirt on to be on television. And what does Rebecca say when she meets him, "Well Big Sexy, that is what they call me around here as well so I'm not sure what we're going to do about that!"

Apparently we weren't moving fast enough for them, because they were really wanting to hotbox in their car without getting caught by the media, so ironically, they called their police friends to make sure we moved. It was quite the scene when they showed up, all of the sudden there went from 5 to around 12 people on the lawn making calls, and chatting while they watched Rebecca do her live 10pm shot then interview "Big Sexy".

It was a totally different experience from being in the newsroom and was very interesting!

Mentioned in Mike Allen's PLAYBOOK!

OK so next funny story time! Tonight we went to the CNN 30 year reunion party (more to come on this later) and we run into a guy who Rebecca knows and says oh are these your infamous interns? We were all confused as to how he would know who we are, especially since we were the only interns/college people at the party, and he proceeds to tell us that we were talked about in Mike Allen's PLAYBOOK for Politico (the guy I mentioned in the other post who the New York Times says the White House wakes up to!) So apparently a few days ago they woke up to talk about Rahm taking pictures with Rebecca Coopers interns haha!

The story is at:

http://dyn.politico.com/printplaybook.cfm?uuid=21A01104-18FE-70B2-A8142D98ED8030B7

In a Fashion Blog!

The Editor and Chief of Washington Life Magazine Nancy Bagley, Sarah, Myself and another Dog Lover!

Ok so second ALMOST embarrassing moment in DC!

The fashion blog site is:

gabgirlglam.com

Earlier this week Sarah and I got sent by Rebecca to a Pawtini Happy Hour charity event for the DC animal shelter. Everyone brought their dog and it was really fun!

When we first got there we saw these girls with a dog that looks like Sarah's so we went and talked to them, asked where they worked (they did not say Washington Life!) and luckily we left it at that!

Then a girl from this blog site came over and asked to take our picture and we chatted about the dogs for a bit longer.

So Sarah and I go get a table and talk about the other two interns at the party and we wondered what the place they were interning was like.

The party goes on, we meet the hosts and some other interns then I chatted with a guy who is high up at Microsoft working on a whole new blogging system for them that he said may leak the name to us at ABC-7 before anyone else! (I gave him my penguin business card!)

But this is not the point! Fast forward to today when Sarah and I find the blog and show Rebecca the other interns we met while were looking through DC magazines for people to invite to her next charity event. She takes one look at the picture and says "Well that's Nancy Reynolds Bagley, the Editor and Chief of Washington Life Magazine!"... The magazine I am literally looking at at that moment with a big picture of her on the inside cover!

Sarah and I look at each other and immediately wonder if we said anything to them about being interns because we were so embarrassed! Luckily we didn't, but who would have thought!