My note to Shrub on his exit: don't let the door hit you on the way out.
HAPPY INAUGURATION DAY, PEOPLE!!
Only a FEW hours left!
I'm sitting in my DC area apartment (in Northern Virginia) listening to the helicopters traveling overhead, seeing the empty highway out my window (closed to traffic at 3:00 a.m. this morning), knowing that history is about to be made just a scant few miles north of me.
The crowds on TV are heartening. Watching Colin Powell on MSNBC: a class act! The Mall is amazing! Nothing but people everywhere. Families from all over traveling on a bus for hours and hours to come see our new President being sworn in. It's bloody freezing - 17F; wind chill makes it feel like 10F. But they are there.
(I'm not there because I am severely claustrophobic and a crowd of this size would probably make me insane...and not in a good way).
I'm there in spirit. I'm there in mind.
Today, for the first time in eight years, I have hope for the future of this country. I am so very happy and ecstatic that a young, vibrant, SMART person is about to lead us into a new age.
HAPPY INAUGURATION DAY, PEOPLE!!
Only a FEW hours left!
I'm sitting in my DC area apartment (in Northern Virginia) listening to the helicopters traveling overhead, seeing the empty highway out my window (closed to traffic at 3:00 a.m. this morning), knowing that history is about to be made just a scant few miles north of me.
The crowds on TV are heartening. Watching Colin Powell on MSNBC: a class act! The Mall is amazing! Nothing but people everywhere. Families from all over traveling on a bus for hours and hours to come see our new President being sworn in. It's bloody freezing - 17F; wind chill makes it feel like 10F. But they are there.
(I'm not there because I am severely claustrophobic and a crowd of this size would probably make me insane...and not in a good way).
I'm there in spirit. I'm there in mind.
Today, for the first time in eight years, I have hope for the future of this country. I am so very happy and ecstatic that a young, vibrant, SMART person is about to lead us into a new age.
