Columbia muckety-mucks have chosen to waive the residency requirement on my behalf, which clears the way for me to apply the Georgetown credits to my graduation in August. I was also informed by the journalism department’s internship coordinator that I’d get five credits for wherever I wind up getting placed in D.C. So that would give me 125, one more than I need to graduate. Woo-hoo! Anybody going to be in D.C. this summer? Let’s get together.

I will miss Karen, though. Hopefully, we can get most of the wedding planning done before I leave in June. Considering that we met online and maintained an online relationship for a year and a half before she moved to Chicago, I’m not too worried about our ability to stay in touch. One nice thing interning in D.C. (as opposed to Shelby, N.C.)is that it will be much easier to make a quick trip to visit her in Chicago or vice versa.

Plus, I’ll be so busy — between two classes and 36 hours of internship work a week — that the time will probably fly. Should be fun. It won’t be easy, but it may be fun. It could be fun. It will be fun. It might be fun. I’ll have trouble predicting the future.

I should mention that former Columbia Journalism Department Chair Carolyn Hulse had some good things to say about the Institute on Political Journalism program. She said it’s excellent and that it has a very good reputation in D.C. That’s encouraging. I just hope they place me somewhere better than, say, Hog Farmer Quarterly.