I hear there's some big event coming up?

[alexiscartwheel]

I came home tonight and turned on the local news, which I normally don't do, but I guess I should take advantage of the TV while I still can, eh?* Apparently there is absolute nothing happening in D.C. right now besides Inaugural Preparations. I heard all about Inaugural bridge closings, Inaugural Metro schedules, Inaugural port-a-potties, Inaugural weather, Inaugural balls, Inaugural traffic advisories... The anchor also read out comments from poster to the station's online forum, one of whom insisted that they should get over Barack Obama, who is a lying liar what lies, so what if he's black, and report some news. To the other extreme, someone said he'd be as devoted to getting downtown on Tuesday as the Governator was to killing Sarah Connor.

OMG YOU GUYS, BARACK OBAMA!

Also, they had a doctor on giving out great advice, like wear warm clothes cause it's supposed to be frakkin' cold. People with chronic illnesses were advised to stay home. As I shall, local TV doctor guy. As I shall.**

This morning I was listening to one of the local hip-hop stations, which is not my usual musical genre of choice, but they actual play music in the morning instead of making me listen to obnoxious morning show hosts. They had a commercial advertising the "illest party of the year" hosted next Tuesday by Barack Obama at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Joe Biden will DJ. Contact Governor Blagojevich for tickets, because he will sell you anything you want.

It's pretty crazy (in a good way) how excited people are about the Inauguration. It's actually cool. That's just amazing. It's not just the politically inclined who're excited, it's everybody. It really is a big party. :D



*I applied for a digital converter box voucher, but there's a waiting list cause the government ran out of money for the program. So it looks no TV for awhile after February 17. I'm certainly too cheap to just go out and buy the thing just so I don't miss out on more local news.

**My TV will still work then. And local news let us know about their all day coverage.

Comments

[carrotgirl.livejournal.com]

Inaugural port-a-potties??? How thoughtful.

It is CRAZY freezing here right now. Like so cold my coffee froze walking to school. It was still good though.

[alexiscartwheel.livejournal.com]

Yep. They are wall-to-wall along the National Mall, and there are still concerns that there will not be enough restrooms. It is like disaster relief here. Only without the natural disaster.

It's colder than usual today and supposed to stay that way for the weekend, but that just means it'll actually be below freezing all day. My friends at work were asking me about Canadian winter the other day. People here fear real cold.

[carrotgirl.livejournal.com]

Well, at least they are prepared.

And they should. Real cold sucks, unless it is December in which case snow and cold are acceptable. But after that, no thanks! I am missing Vancouver weather like crazy right now.

[alexiscartwheel.livejournal.com]

We don't get super cold, which is good. Negative temperatures, particularly in Fahrenheit are no fun. However, I don't love that it hovers just over freezing and rains. If we could just go a couple degrees colder at least it would snow.