Recess.

Congressional Recess.
When staffers only work 8 hours a day, as opposed to 12 or 14.
When fewer people call and yell at us.
When you can actually take a lunch (as in an entire hour and not at your desk - it's glorious).
When you don't have 7 meetings before noon.
When you can actually return phone calls and clean out your in box.

It's a grand time.

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It is approps season, which means I work all the time.

All the time.

It's annoying, all the budget hearings and the meetings and the approps all at once. I wish I could really prep for the budget hearings. I know a ton about FEMA and Emergency Support Functions and if I wasn't prepping for a 9:30am hearing at 9:30pm the night before, I could write some rockin questions.

It's feast or famine working on the Hill. It's either August and you're sitting around bored out of your mind, or it's March and you're at work at 10:02 on a Friday night.

Blah.