My new job

I have a brilliant new money-making idea. It's mine, so don't try to steal it, sticky fingers.

It started--as all good business ideas and jewel heists do--with a conversation. The conversationee was my friend Brian, the former proprietor of the sadly-dead but fondly-remembered Bears Will Attack blog. He lives a life of whirlwind, travel, flash and excitement and his job keeps him shuttling back and forth from his home in NYC to his business's partner office in DC. Yesterday, he decided to see the streets, monuments and sights of his old town on a bike (realizing maybe a little too late that it was a bad idea to do so on a day when the temperature hit 100). I asked him what he was going to do tomorrow (aka "today"):

Brian: Nothing very DC. Just going to work.
Reid: Work?! That's about the most DC thing you could do!

And then it hit me: crazy, stupid people are willing to pay money to live lives that aren't their own. They pay to be farmers, pilgrims, Christmas elves and stock brokers for a short time, just to experience a life reality that's different than theirs.

So here's my plan: find some swank offices as close to the Capitol as possible (note to self: requires money. Find money), set up a few computers, get some suits in various sizes and charge crazy, stupid people vomitous amounts of money to wear a suit and sit at a computer all day and feel what it's like to be a big, high-powered lobbyist. I can hire actors to call them up pretending to be senators and take them out to lunch (which my client will pay for) and make them feel like they're involved in underhanded shenanigans.

It still needs some tweaking, but it's a sure-fire moneymaker. I'm some kind of a genius or something.