I'm supposed to have three classes on Mondays. ALL of them were canceled! One was canceled long in advance, but the others were communicated by sign-on-the-door and last-minute-email within an hour before class was scheduled to begin. Weird ( Read more... )

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Watching Sarah Palin's speech on Thursday got me more worked up than I'd maybe like to admit. I watch a lot of political stuff, so I shouldn't have been surprised. But the rancor in her speech and -- much more significantly -- the blind love for it expressed by her audience, reminded me way too strongly of GWB circa 2003. Inexplicably high approval ( Read more... )

Long notes on the Obama rally under the cut...

Doors opened at 8:30 for a 10 am event. My friend Liz and I ran late, but got there around 9:50am. Went through security, then were trying to figure out where our "preferred seating" tickets would get us -- but a woman came up and asked if we had seats yet. We said no, and she directed us (not sure why ( Read more... )

Saw Governor Strickland this morning, here technically to introduce the national law school dems convention. Pretty boring speech, particularly for the hundred high schoolers there for a minority outreach / recruitment event ( Read more... )

Me, on Friday's news:


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Yeah, um, I think I have an addiction to big round earrings.

... I am well on my way to becoming the official "undecided voter" of Columbus, Oh.

Cut for long, since parts of it are lifted from earlier emails, and because I wanted to document this for myself:

WEDNESDAY:
went to a Chelsea Clinton event on campus . It was a very quickly organized event, but I was still surprised that there were only about 150 ( Read more... )

I went to the Chelsea Clinton event today, and am still undecided. Hear more of my opinions about the event and my stance on the issues on Columbus channel 6 tonight at 5 or 5:30 ( Read more... )

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