(no interns, please)

This is the first in a new series of posts I will call, "You know you've moved to Washington when..."

Let's talk Evites.  After living in SoCal for 8 years, I ended up getting quite a few regular evites.  This is an example of a typical evite from someone living in Hollywood/WeHo:

"Yadda yadda yadda...cute boys....yadda yadda yadda...booze...yadda yadda yadda...cute boys....yadda yadda yadda...potential for appearance by C to D-list celeb....yadda yadda yadda....booze...bring other cute boys.....leave your scripts and headshots at home, people!"

Seriously...this is practically a template on Evite in Los Angeles.  Now, I received one of my first Evites the other day from a crew of friends here in the district.  It went something like this

""Yadda yadda yadda...capitol hill brownstone....yadda yadda yadda...booze...yadda yadda yadda...bring umbrella....yadda yadda yadda...potential for appearance by sexy foreign correspondents....yadda yadda yadda....booze...forget about work for a few hours.....(no interns, please)"

As many of you know, I am constantly trying to convince people that Washington and Los Angeles have a number of similarities.  First of all, the liquor flows freely.  Though, I must admit that the group of IRS attorneys hanging out at J.R.'s taking shots of Jim Bean on a Sunday afternoon would probably drink the boys at the Abbey under the table with their apple martinis...but that's not the important part....

Interns in this town are like production assistants in Hollywood.  The entire city runs on their 18-21 year-old blood sweat and tears, but everyone has to feign at least some kind of contempt for them.  "Leave your scripts and headshots at home, people!' really means "unless you're cute and easy," for an Angeleno.  And, "(no interns, please)" means "unless you're cute and easy" for a Washingtonian. The big difference, you see, is the use of the parentheses.  That's because Washington is a shirt and tie town, right?

Totally.