Intern Nick is on vacation this week (along with the rest of DC), so your dedicated editors had to compile this edition of Washington’s favorite unverified stalking guide all by themselves. Pity us, and learn where Helen Thomas eats, and the places Robert Novak has been known to walk by. Also: did you know that C-Span anchors are celebrities? Brian Lamb sure didn’t! That was the week that was, after the jump.

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• Reliable Source: First daughter Jenna Bush is leaving Washington for a teaching gig in Latin America; twin sis Barbara Bush recently landed a job in educational programming at New York’s Cooper Hewitt Museum. [WP]

• Heard on the Hill: Sen. Mel Martinez autographs photos of himself while presiding over the Senate debate on the flag-burning amendment. [Roll Call]
• Under the Dome: Big Connecticut unions have endorsed Sen. Joe Lieberman (D-CT) in primary battle against Ned Lamont, but they’re not exactly huge fans of the senator. [The Hill]
• Rush & Molloy: Loews CEO Jonathan Tisch is contemplating a run for New York mayor. [NYDN]

Thanks for all your guesses in response to yesterday’s blind item about a southern Republican congressman who has found himself in a bit of trouble. We won’t pass on the correctness or incorrectness of your guesses; we’ll just pass them along, with minimal comment.

Here was one of the better responses:

Oh God, oh God, oh God! Please, please, please let it be Jeff Sessions! And please let his mistress be John Cornyn!

Sorry to disappoint you, dear reader. But it can’t be Jeff Sessions, since he’s a senator rather than a representative. Points for creativity, though!

More guesses, after the jump.

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Senate staffer Amanda Schweitzer, 25, of Winter Park, Fla., was arrested last week for “refusing to leave [Shea Field]” after a college football game, yelling at the police and “pushing an officer away belligerently.” Heady stuff (though around here we just call that Friday night). Schweitzer told police that “Her boss, Sen. Bill Nelson, would take care of the cops and that they couldn’t do anything to her.” It’s a gross misuse of authority — literally: Schweitzer worked — she resigned yesterday — for Florida’s other, Republican, senator, Mel Martinez. MORE »