I'll write a big post later, because it's late, I've had a long day, and TDS is going to be live tonight and it's on in 15 minutes. But, I will say that today I was lucky enough to see the 44th president sworn into office, and even luckier to on Pennsylvania Ave., but inside, with warmth and food and bathrooms. I was also lucky enough to have an ( Read more... )

It's after midnight on the East Coast, making it officially inauguration day! Wooo!

( This was supposed to be short. Oh well )

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*The title is an inside joke in my family - said as a response to someone doing something either a.) impressive; b.) new and exciting; c.) if that person is being a douchebag, to take them down a peg.

So, my dad is evidently a bigwig in his company and among his clients, because he got us all tickets to be INSIDE during the inauguration, in the ( Read more... )

This evening I was walking to the Metro. For the past few days, there's been various displays by the escalators of pictures/prints of Obama. I was eying them this evening - they all had various phrases on them, and I was trying to read them all. And RIGHT when I passed them and got to see what they said, the theme from The West Wing came on my iPod ( Read more... )

So, you guys, Jed Bartlet won the presidency.
Sure, he's a black dude from Illinois and not a white dude  from New Hampshire, but...I'm pretty sure Jed Bartlet is our next president.

That's so fucking cool.

He also happens to be my new boss, come Jan. 20th.

I'll do my best, Mr. President.

If you haven't already. You get a sticker, and all the cool kids are doing it ( Read more... )

In my house anyway, wasn't anything Biden or Palin said. It was this: 
Toward the end of the debate, after Biden's big smackdown of McCain before the closing remarks, I casually looked up at Roommate and Roommate's Boyfriend and said, "Hey, so you know my friend who just had a baby? Well I was talking to her the other day, and she said she and her ( Read more... )

( mini-political rant -- on the liberal side. So you've all been warned. )