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[levertovfan]

I should probably update on my first week of work. Work is pretty low-key for me right now. I'm a National Partnership Associate, so my major responsibility is establishing relationships with various sites of our national partners. Since I've only been introduced to one person at one site, I don't have the overflowing inboxes that most of my co-workers have. Unlike orientation, unlike moving, if I have something that I need to get done and I don't have time, I can postpone it until the next day. Plus, a really strong community of young people my age at work--Youth Venture is almost entirely people my age--means that I'm in my comfort zone. I've been busy pretty much all day these past three days, which is very unlike my lifestyle in Minneapolis. There was a youth council meeting Tuesday night, I met with a family friend last night, and I finally made it to the library this evening. In many ways it's an improvement over my life in Minneapolis, although sleep is certainly seeming like something that could be endangered.

Meeting the family friend (actually, the wife of a family friend) last night was nice. She's a historical researcher by trade and a foodie and reader by inclination; suffice it to say, we agreed on many things. She remembered one Japanese restaurant in Georgetown from a decade or so ago, but instead we ended up at a small, heavily staffed Japanese restaurant in the bottom of the same building, very authentic and expensive to the point that I looked to her to decide what we were going to eat. It was some of the best food I've ever had.