
Inauguration Day 2009
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I.e., "that day I would've taken more pictures, but my fingers were f*cking freezing." There are few people in the world I'd get up for at 4am (on a day off) to wait in line just to get INto the metro (that alone I dread pretty much every day of my life) to then stand amongst a crowd of a million or so crazy folk in the dead of winter (wind chill of 11F) to witness their inauguration into the Pre…
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19 Jan 2009
golden ticket
Tomorrow my usual commute of 25 minutes will take 2.5 hours. I will hustle through crowds of zillions of people. I will stand on the Mall in the freezing cold, probably starving and needing to pee (but won't go into a porta-potty if you paid me). And I wouldn't miss this for anything.
It was going so well...
until the cops suddenly blocked 7th St. at E St. Meaning having to walk - oh I dunno, 1000 miles to 18th St. VIA I STREET (!) to get to the Mall since every next street was already closed off for the parade. Did I mention it was COLD? OMG.
These folks were in line to watch the parade, waiting to pass through security. I hope they got in.
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