As I’ve said many times before, Copenhagen was a wonderful experience, but I did miss Washington, D.C., and I missed my friends here more than anything. Today’s been a busy day of reuniting with many of those friends.

For lunch, I met up with several friends in Dupont Circle. We ate quickly, but we must’ve sat and talked for over an hour. Also today was our first chapter meeting of the semester (for my professional business fraternity, Alpha Kappa Psi), and my first chapter meeting since last May, over eight months ago. It’s hard to believe it’s been so long. I saw a lot of the familiar faces–including my little, who sometimes seems like she really could be related to me–as well as a lot of new ones. Since I’ve been gone there’s been an entirely new class of brothers to enter the fraternity and it’s great meeting them as well. Also, my little took a little of her own, making her my grandlittle, and it was amazing to finally meet her in person!

Finally, I spent a little time tonight just hanging out with some of my best friends from this past summer. Even playing Wii with them seems almost foreign, since it’s been almost six months since I’ve held a controller.

Tomorrow is the first day of classes and boy is it a busy first day for me. This semester I’m taking 18 credit hours–six classes worth–and I have five of those classes on Mondays. In some ways I’m dreading the work, but for the most part I’m kind of excited. The classes I have this semester seem interesting, and should make for some interesting lessons and reading. For what it’s worth, they include:

• Public Speaking (probably the one I’m the most excited about)
• Public Relations Writing
• Principles of Organizational Behavior and Management
• Intermediate Statistics (not dreading it, but I know it will probably require the most effort on my part)
• Competition in an Interdependent World (my last general education requirement!)
• Media and the American Mind (an honors colloquium–i.e. special topics–course, should be absolutely fascinating)

I start my internship on Tuesday. Expect a pretty decent blog post on that Tuesday night. I’ve held off talking about it too much just because, to be honest, I don’t really know what to expect. It’s a pretty prestigious internship and I’ve been incredibly lucky to receive this opportunity. I know it’s going to be a great experience, but I want to have some firsthand knowledge before I go into much detail here on the blog. Might need to add a little disclaimer, too–”none of the opinions expressed on this blog are representative of my employer nor it’s clients”.

It’s good to be back. Now time to get to work and kick this semester into gear.