Whew

[trinityvixen]

Teddy's going to be okay. Well, I mean, still has brain cancer and is really, really old, but he's been released from the hospital. I blame myself for his seizure, honestly, because I was the dumbfuck who just had to comment about how he managed pretty well and how funny it was that he managed to outlast his brothers and become the real Kennedy institution in politics. Then he had his episode. Well done, me.

I forgot to mention one wonderful thing about yesterday: our former roommate, Ms. Beans, got her 95-year-old grandmother, a former civil rights/constitutional law-focused attorney, on the phone to celebrate the event. This woman is amazing, still incredibly sharp and funny. She's lived through easily 10-15 administrations in her lifetime, and she was on the Mall when Martin Luther King Jr. gave his most famous speech. She reminisced about that with me and compared it to the inauguration. Not surprisingly, there were more people at the inauguration than at Dr. King's speech, but to hear that from someone who was there? Oh, you guys, I was sooooo swept up. I am a complete and total sap.

ETA: I opened an article to see a picture of Obama in the Oval Office, already working. I nearly fell over dead with JOY.

Comments

[anirien.livejournal.com]

It could have been worse, I kinda... jinxed Mother Theresa! After Princess Diana died some tv show was doing a montage of clips of her and there was one where she was with Mother Theresa. As famous people tend to die in threes I was like "Oh Mother Theresa's pretty old, wonder when she's gonna kick it." Then she did. The next day. Yeah, I'm going to hell.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I need to learn not to say things like "It could never possibly happen!" or "How bad could it get?" or "It can't get any worse, right?" and stop playing with people's lives.

[mithras03.livejournal.com]

Oh, you mean it's not the president's job to clear brush on a ranch? Wow... :-P

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Who knew? It's just so WONDERFUL because it's Obama! And our president! AND HE IS WORKING TO FIX THE WORLD OHPLEASEOHPLEASEOHPLEASE!!!

[jendaby.livejournal.com]

I've barely been online since watching the inauguration (I spent six hours cooking and baking when it was over) but was really excited to see, hear and read about all of the amazing things he set into motion on day one!
I was also highly annoyed at MSNBC for having headlines like "How Long Will The Honeymoon Last?" but media is prone to melodrama. I just can't stand melodrama.

I hear you on feeling like you've jinxed someone by saying something. I have had a few moments like that, and it is always so unsettling. I also seem to jinx sports teams...

Anyway! President Obama! Yay!

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

The problem with being popular is that you have to justify that love and fend off any who would tarnish you. Alas, the media makes its living tarnishing people, so they did the respectful thing and now the bloom is off and anyone is fair game. (They also manage to escape being called negative nay-bobs by going "when will people stop liking Obama?" as opposed to just openly questioning his authority themselves.)

Screw 'em: YAY PRESIDENT OBAMA!