-: To me it's really exciting and you have to patient,
but if you feel like you are at least marginally each day
improving the situation in our politics and government
that's satisfying to me.
Really satisfying to me is to write something
that I think is good.
Particularly if it's an advocacy piece
that is trying to convince people of something.
That this bill that's in the General Assembly
is a good bill or is not a good bill.
And that if I can do that in a way
that reaches people who in the current environment
are mostly pretty dug in that's very satisfying.
And then just the dealing with people.
I just like it.
One of the great things about my job
is I go off on one of these weekends
I have no idea who I'm gonna meet.
A few weeks ago we went 2,000 feet underground
in a coal mine so we would really understand
a little bit better about what's it like
in a coal mine, in the coal mining business
and the town where the coal mine is and all of that.
So, we met top people from the coal company,
we met the regular workers
and we met local folks from around,
and the local mayor, which is part-time job
and he runs the 7-11 and you know this kind of thing.
And, you can't get this sitting in Richmond
or sitting in Washington or sitting in Charlottesville.
So there's always somebody interesting.