Week 1: Check

I have successfully completed my first week in Virginia and USA Today.
My days are taken up with my work in the magazine and USA Today College divisions. And I have the best internship ever, as far as I'm concerned. Why? Let me count the ways.
1. I could live in my office. And not because I'm overworked. Because it has so many amenities. A gym, a hair salon, a convenient store with Starbucks, a huge cafeteria, basketball courts, a volleyball pit, and a nurse's station are just some of them.
2. I get my own cubicle and brand new Mac desktop computer. Seriously, this thing is sweet. I sit in front of it all day and never get bored. Macs may not be a big deal to a lot of people, but compared to my piece of crap laptop that sounds like a small jet engine taking off every time I turn it on, this is a substantial improvement. Do you think I can convince them to let me keep it at the end of the summer? Hmm...
3. My colleagues have some pretty impressive resumes. To name a few, they have worked for the NFL, Politico, USA Weekend, and the Washington Post. This gives me hope for my future, whether it is staying with USA Today, which would be awesome, or working for another national media outlet. The cost of living is pretty astronomical out here, but I know the benefits outweigh it.
And although I love my job, living so far away from home has been a little harder than I initially expected. For instance, it's Friday night and I am in my pajamas, blogging, emailing my internship coordinator, and singing along to my Kate Voegele Pandora station. Even though this is probably what I should be doing -- I'm exhausted -- I can't help but wish I was with my friends from home.
But there is always a light at the end of the tunnel and that light is the fact that I am going sightseeing in D.C. tomorrow! I can't wait to be all tourist-y and take a hundred pictures and then be annoying and post them all over Facebook with captions like, "White House!", "Lincoln!", "SOME OTHER OLD GUY OMGZZZ!"
That's all I've got for now. I'm off to commence my night of eating Samoa ice cream and reading Water for Elephants.