He Shall, From Time to Time...

A few notes before I crash. Though I need to start reading the 200 page book that was due at 9:55 Monday morning and have it done by tomorrow at 5pm. OOPS.

Today was so much fun. Waking up at 7:30 was not fun, dealing with other annoying volunteers was not fun (though dealing with awesome volunteers is fun!), having my shirt be about 25 sizes too big was not fun, but pretty much everything else was fun.

• I think I now know every word to Graceland, I Know What I Know, You Can Call Me Al, Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes, and Under African Skies. I am pretty sure that some staffer just plugged in his iPod and put those five on repeat. It was pretty awesome.

• Standing on your feet for 5 hours, and then breaking down chairs and tables and pulling massive amounts of packing tape up from the floor is painful.
  

• No matter how much you try to kindly direct people in the right direction, they will go the wrong direction.
  

• You may have bonded with campaign staff while setting up Senator Kennedy's "VIP suite" until 12:30am, but by 9am they have already forgotten who you are.

• Caroline Kennedy can be wearing a dress at the event and you can have no idea of that until you see her on MSNBC 3 hours later. I thought she was wearing a pantsuit because I couldn't see her lower half at all.
  

• If you are 7 years old and adorable (and especially if you are Ethiopian), chances are you can get a volunteer to stick you in the front row.
  

• Senator Kennedy really does scream when he talks. And Congressman Kennedy has plastic hair. I'm a huge fan of the Kennedys.
  

3 hour long nap later, we have the State of the Union! The last one. Lame Duck SOTU. Finally.

I wasn't paying attention too terribly closely because of course those of us watching together got in ... discussions? every once in a while. Though mostly we just made observations about how frequently Speaker Pelosi blinks and how infrequently Vice President Cheney blinks.

Senator Clinton looked pissed at all the press that Senator Obama and Senator Kennedy were getting. Apparently Bill spent all week trying to get Sen. Kennedy to at least stay neutral, which obviously didn't work. Also, red was intense on Senator Clinton, and I kind of think she needs a new hairstyle.

I hate that I'm saying that, because obviously she's a woman and I don't want to be criticizing her fashion just because she's a woman. However, I think one of the funnest things about being a woman in the business/professional world is that we get to wear prettier things than the boys and not get flack about doing stuff like wearing a lavender suit to the State of the Union, while the boys have to wear dark blue or black, have an option of 3 different ties (red, blue, or striped), maybe 2 different shirts (white or light blue), and shiny shoes. So now I'm giving Hillary flack about wearing red. Red suit is fine but she could have balanced it with a white shirt under the jacket? You know, just a suggestion. I guess she's Senator Clinton, she can do whatever she wants.

EXCEPT get a Kennedy family endorsement!! Ha ha ha

Florida tomorrow!