Although most internships are sadly unpaid, it’s not all hard work and making copies. June 10-19, D.C.’s discount labor get free and reduced fare at restaurants, museums, and shops in the city during the InternsRock: Intern Appreciation Week, hosted by the Washington Center.

Some of the promotions include 20% off at Tombs, a free Sprinkles cupcake, and free admission to the Newseum. All you need to do is present proof of your internship – like a letter from your supervisor, a note, or an e-mail – at one of the Washington Center offices near Dupont (1333 16th Street, N.W., 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Monday-Friday) or Union Station (1005 3rd Street N.E., 10 a.m.-11:00 a.m. daily) and you get a wristband that will access all the discounts.

Image: Washington Center

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Recently, the must-read blog in D.C. has been Spotted: DC Summer Interns. With its catty tales of intern foibles, the blog is a fun place to read bitter Hill staffers bashing the teenagers half a step below them. It’s pretty entertaining as is, but how could we make it even better? Madlib it!

Brace yourselves, it’s that time of year again…

With intern season officially upon us, it’s about time the local blogosphere came out with its annual anti-intern novelty blog (because what’s a D.C. summer if not a chance to hone your superiority complex?). Last year, it was the short-lived but stupendous M4Intern (“D.C.’s most common sexual preference”), a compilation of the best intern-directed Craigslist solicitations. This year it looks like the mantle will be taken up by Spotted: DC Summer Interns.

The blog got off to a rocky start, initially plagiarizing from the brilliant Look at My Striped Shirt! in its intro post, earning demerits from DCist (the intro has since been re-written), but it seems to have bounced back from the false-start by relying on crowdsourced intern call-outs.

Posts range from stories of unmerited self-importance (“Intern 1 to Intern 2: ‘Aren’t there places for staff like me to watch the House floor, you know, where I don’t have to sit with the general public?’”) to sartorial snark (“[T]he worst of all was the Skintern wearing a zebra print tank top, with soaking wet hair. I guess she spent so much time on her Friday-night-going-to-McFaddens-makeup that she didn’t have time to dry it?”) to tales of woeful ineptitude (“We asked an intern to summarize a book we received for the Member … The summary he turned in three days later was off the inside of the book’s jacket. Verbatim.”).

Of particular interest to Georgetown students, though, might be this post from yesterday afternoon:

People come from all over the country to work on the Hill, but a good chunk of Hill staffers attended college right here in the nation’s capital. Georgetown interns: yes, we all know your school is hot shit, and it goes without saying that Georgetown is the top name school in Washington, DC.

However, before proceeding to rip mercilessly on GW, AU, and CUA, you might want to do a little research to see if any of your superiors attended GW, AU, or CUA. There’s a good chance at least one if not a few of them did.

Photo from Flickr user jGregor, used under a Creative Commons license.