Inauguration 2008
There was something otherworldly about the inauguration yesterday. I left my desk at 10:30 to watch the hour long swearing in. The rest of the day I was zooming with work and wasn’t thinking about the activities for the night. Then night was upon us and T was teaching, Arlene needed pills, Wolfie needed to be set up in the laundry room and the thought of going out and celebrating was daunting.
I missed the first event at Swirl and made my way into a nice hot bubble bath and repeated the mantra – Calgon Take Me Away – and by the time T returned, I was still on the fence about going anywhere or doing any sort of celebrating.
But we rallied – stopping first at the party in the neighborhood and receiving great Obama buttons as party favors and then we made our way over to the “Inaugural Ball” at another friends’ house where we danced to We Are The World, gave testimony and witness to Obama’s presidency, and drank champagne.
Nice day.