I was really planning on avoiding the whole craziness, but was informed that I'll probably be working the Presidential Inaugural Ball. It's not as cool as it reads...mostly setting up stuff. Maybe I can meet someone that day and get tickets to hang with the celebs and the idiots who run this country, but that's like a one-in-a-million chance. A lot of people around here are avoiding the mess like the plague. Others are going to brave the weather. It's going to be damn cold... damnnnn cold... cozying up with strangers just to survive cold. Anybody coming to District? Any government higher ups in here?
I am not going, but I would love to take photos of that. I know one person from Houston (wife's coworker) who is leaving this weekend to D.C. Do you live NEAR D.C. somewhere in MD, or further out?
I'm in the burbs in MD. It's like Stafford to Houston I guess. The road blocks up in dc are ridiculous.
There's a big busload of people here that are coming in to attend... I personally will not be one of the crazies. I will just watch on tv/internet. My cousin will be there. He works for a Senator in Louisiana. If you meet a nice 20-something guy with the last name Curtsinger from Kentucky that's him.
My former supervisor is going. She will be one of the 240,000 people who actually have tickets, rather than just a walk up attendee. Pretty cool, I think.
I'm going (Fri - Wed). This cold weather is freaking this native Houston boy out. I was first in line with Sheila Jackson Lee's office to get tickets, but then she switched to a "lottery" system.
I would never go to an inauguration. I don't understand why the people I know are going. The people I know that can't afford it and support Obama are going. The ones that can afford it and support him are watching from home. I may watch some of it, considering how huge the post election party was, and the DNC. Hopefully nobody does anything too stupid. To those of you going, enjoy yourself, and travel safe.
I lived in DC for two inaugurals... HW and Clinton's first. After each, the town was sick for months. All those people from all over the country bringing their own little strains of flu and colds. It was brutal. By the way, for Clinton's speech I managed to get to within 1/4 of a mile of the podium.
I attend George Mason up there next to DC, and I'm still contemplating whether I'm gonna go into DC at all for any of the events. No way in hell am I going to the actual inauguration. Metro predicts that it could take you as many as 8 hours just to get out of DC on that day. I know on sunday there's a free concert at the Lincoln memorial with Jay Z, Beyonce, Garth Brooks, Shakira,, Denzel and Jamie Foxx will be there too doing some kind of "historical readings" Other than that.. there are like a billion parties goin on as pretty much every A list celebrity in America is going to be in DC this weekend.
