Reviews, Recipes, and Random Slices of Life

Yesterday, Inauguration Day, I shifted to the couch downstairs and worked on my laptop (yay in-home wireless!) so that I could watch all the inauguration events. I worked on critiques and responding to critiques instead of new writing. I got less done than I usually would, but it's surprising I was able to get anything else done at all.

I missed the swearing-in, though I've read about it since, but I watched almost all of the speech. I watched the poet (okay-not-great poem--that's the problem with writing something specifically for an occasion). I watched the news and the analysis and the beginning of the dinner and the parade and everything, all day long until I had to go to martial arts class.

This is the first time that the person I voted for for president has won. I know that's true for a lot of people in my age group, but it just sunk home. My guy won. I have confidence in his ability and his good intentions. I trust that he shares my most important values. It is a damn heady feeling. I have done my civic duty with grim determination ever since I was old enough to vote. I've voted in every election, presidential or not. I have never felt happy like this before.

I begin to see the magic of Camelot reborn. I'm interested on a personal level in what President Obama will do next. I want to know about the puppy his daughters pick. For goodness' sake, I'm interested in what Michelle chooses to wear--and no, I'm not usually at all interested in fashions. A little fairydust adheres to anything they do.

I don't even like watching the news, usually. I prefer to read my news. But yesterday, I spent all day sitting in front of the television following the events of the day.

• 06:58 Smoke on the Water Ancient Japanese-style is *awesome*. Via prof_vencire: tinyurl.com/2om3w8 #
• 06:59 Feeling stressed already, though there's no reason I should be. Off to work. Oh, maybe that's it. #
• 08:36 Am going to be only QC person at NgithOwl for 2 weeks...while still handling on-site elsewhere. Ahahahahaha! #
• 10:12 Could anybody *maybe* come to dinner with me tonight? My treat? See cloudscudding.livejournal.com/607087.html. #
• 13:28 Coworker: "...going into a big open space and shooting a whole bunch of people." [Person walks by.] Me: "A bad thing! We're saying it's ... #
• 14:16 Cookies and brownies at the on-site! #
• 15:11 Dear Amazon, just because I've purchased *fiction* recently doesn't mean I want whatever updates you send. #
• 15:52 The headless gap(?) mannequin baby, Dar, reading comic book today and I find this very funny. tinyurl.com/5ewhzq #
• 16:52 Awkward "i know you from somewhere but can't recall more than that" moment at the library. #
• 16:52 Have dire suspicion she was one who told me of job. Urk. Shoulda played the no-memory card for humor, too late now. #
• 16:55 I rather enjoy the strange modern poetry that Jott mistranscriptions form. #
• 20:44 Mystery shop succesful. Food tasty. Was totally made. #
• 22:47 That's why I don't do mystery shops more often...so many questions that demand ridiculously detailed answers. #

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