Well… It’s my last week in the office, again. We’ll see if this time it sticks. Things are still a
bit up in the air with my next semester, but I hope I’ll be able to make it back up to the Hill. In the meantime, I’ve been looking forward to the winter break. I’ve been feeling a building need to get back home. To get back to the mountains, to the snow. To my family. As I usually feel in D.C. towards the middle of December, I miss the winter. I miss the cold. Actual cold, not just the windy “cold” that gets everybody bundled up here. As things are now, I feel like I can’t even listen to Christmas music. There isn’t an ounce of snow on the ground, nor a bit of frost on the sickly, ochre and umber colored grass. The land feels more barren and dead than the dynamism of Alaska’s winter snowscape. In the midst of the pandemic, the differences between here and home feel greater than ever. I feel a deep need to go back. That being said, I leave the Senate this time with my heart already home. I take with me many great experiences, and a lot of reading material. You see, after a call I had with Kate earlier this week, she sent me reams of documents focused solely on the Chehalis v. Mnuchin case I wrote about a while back. Motions from the parties involved in the case, the decision from the district court, and more were all sent to me in consecutive emails at the very end of my last day. Knowing that printing the documents at my university or at home would cost me a fair amount of money, I printed every document I could before I left. Last I saw, I scheduled over 600 pages to be printed in the last half hour before I headed out. I still have to three hole punch the papers together and aggregate them all into a binder, but I should have a fair amount of reading material for my winter break. We’ll see if I actually get to reading it by the time break is over, but I’m grateful to have more information about a case that has captivated me so much over this past semester. Even if I don’t return to the Senate next semester, I hope I can still keep up with important events like this which may impact our Alaska Native communities. For now though? I’ve got a plane to catch, and plenty of reading to do.
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