Happy Birthday!!!

If you were in the R&W last week you would've heard lots of singing and eaten lots of cake.  Randy Schools is my boss and it was his birthday!  He is such a great man, I really couldn't have gotten a better person to be a mentor for my internship.  He knows so many people (like Bill Cosby, Oprah, and a number of congressmen and women, ambassadors and anyone else), has been the president or chairman of many profit and non-profit boards, the man behind huge events and/or initiatives that bless the lives of thousands of people (like Special Love and building the Children's Inn so patients and their families can stay at NIH for free), and has been honored in the Washingtonian and many other places.  And in talking to him you'd never know it.  He's very down-to-earth and just a hard working and very giving man.  Doesn't he look like such a sweet guy?!

Randy has helped tremendously with my experience here in DC.  I'm practically his shadow and get to go to the whining and dining experiences as well as the hard working, get your hands dirty ones.  In all places, when he introduces me, he has to tell everyone I'm from Idaho and laughs as he does.  Not to mock, but because I'm the only one from Idaho he's ever met, and he's amazed I heard about the R&W at NIH from clear over there!  He goes on and on about it, it's hilarious.  Someday he'll take a trip and we'll show him the beauty, peace, and fun you can experience in the west!