Fairs!
Well, today has been chock-full of excitement. I’d just like to say that I don’t think I’ve ever been more tired in my life. Actually, I’m sure that’s not true, because there’s nothing I like better than pushing myself to the brink of exhaustion when on a deadline, so I’m sure I was more tired than this during finals. But I am pretty damn tired. Also, guess when I have to be up tomorrow? Yep, that’s right, 5:45. Why DA has to have breakfast meetings at 7:45 in the morning is beyond me. Why it takes 45 minutes to get from the dorms to the hotel is also a mystery. However, I’ve given up questioning why it takes me an hour and 15 minutes to get ready in the morning. It just does. I just have to accept that.
Anyway, this morning I woke up with the intention of going to the CDA brunch with the Mayor of Newark, NJ, Cory Booker. But alas, I decided having straight hair for the demsabroad meeting this afternoon was more important to me. And then I fooled around online for a while looking up events to go to while downtown. So I didn’t end up leaving the dorms until around 12:30. I know, pathetic.
My plan was to go to the Denver 2008 Convention Marketplace, but I got sidetracked on the way. As I was getting off the lightrail (aka metro aka train), I saw another fair/festival type thing, which turned out to be the Green Frontier Fest, which I had also wanted to go to, but was putting off because it’s going on all week, while the Marketplace was only for today. But I couldn’t just walk past it.
So I walked around the GFF, which was very educational. I also got a lot of free crap. I’m such a sucker for free stuff. I think I ended up with 4 bags, several samples of products I’m never going to use, and a couple of pens. I’ll take a full inventory of all the free stuff I’ve gotten from the convention when I get back to DC. Anyway, I digress. My main objective was trying to find some free food, however, all I managed was a slice of organic bread with organic blueberry jam. It was good, but rather unfulfilling, since I hadn’t eaten at all yet. Pretty unfortunate, all in all. But I did have some free sample hemp ice cream, which was surprisingly delicious. Who knew? When I think of hemp I think of those bracelets we used to make at camp, but thankfully the ice cream didn’t taste like that.
I could have made out like a bandit with nutrition bars, but personally, I think they’re disgusting. Also, they tend to have stuff in them like walnuts and almonds and hazelnuts, all of which I’m allergic to. You just never know. (I wanted to get a shirt I saw that said “I’m allergic to Republicans” because, really, I’m allergic to everything else, and at least it would cheer me up when I have bad reactions to things because I’m not careful and don’t ask what’s in them, but they were expensive. And by expensive I mean like 20 bucks. But with all the t-shirts I plan on getting for free, it pains me to pay money for one.)
So still hungry, but with several extra pounds of loot, I headed to my original destination, the first street fair. I got sidetracked again, though, by the convention center, when I stopped in to make sure everything was a go for playing the VFA video at tonight’s rally. And I ended up talking to other DNC interns/hanging with college dems for like 45 minutes, which severely cut into my fair time, unfortunately. But I eventually made it, and was able to give it a quick runthrough (and buy some presents) before I had to leave for the DA meeting at the delegation’s hotel. And I was on time, which is a rarity for me! Lateness is probably my number one vice. But I’ll dissect that character flaw in another post, once this crazy convention is over.
And I’m over my self-imposed word limit for this post, so I’ll just have to leave you guys hanging. I know, disappointing. However, I feel like long posts are not conducive to keeping your attention. So stay tuned for the rest of the day’s adventures.
