The end is near. As of today, November 21st, I'm only down at the Mayor's office two more times before I'm done. I have Monday and Wednesday of Thanksgiving week and then I have a stray farewell luncheon with the Mayor and other interns during finals week and my journey here will be over.
This week has been just as busy as ever. From trying to reorganize the scheduling system, to organizing two very large meetings hosted by the Mayor for the beginning of December, to continued work on the Young Professionals Kitchen Cabinet...it seems like every time I come in I have a million things that are my responsibility and those things are tasks that no other intern can be assigned to. Probably the strangest thing about being almost finished here is projects I have been working on are starting to have timelines past my timeline for continuing my internship. Planning events close to Christmas and booking venues for dates far into 2015 seem extremely distant. I know that I am going to have to leave my name on these projects for now but in a week if someone calls the Mayor's Office asking for Miranda the response will be, "She has completed her internship with us, how can I be of service?" I know this very well because I said the same thing when Julia left to go back home to Germany. At the same time though, just because I am almost done does not mean that I've stopped trying to get as much done as I possibly can. The Office of the Mayor still needs to run smoothly and a lazy intern will not be helping that cause. So for now I just keep chugging but the difference is I can see the end where I don't have to take a call asking why the Mayor let it snow so early. (You didn't hear? The Mayor controls the weather now.) M
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Basically since I started at the Mayor's Office I have been working on getting the University of Cincinnati Student Senate to have a meeting here at City Hall. This past Wednesday that project finally came to fruition and was a complete success. Even though I had to scramble to get a speaker, the person I got was a great choice and answered everyone's questions well. The Mayor was also able to make a short appearance upstairs for us for about ten minutes which was really exciting because we really did not except him to come at all.
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AuthorMiranda Hileman is an honors student at the University of Cincinnati embarking on a journey to combat the insanity of working for a public official. Archives
December 2014
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