yes we can...

i'm so bad at keeping up with this thing, but apparently people read it, so i'll try to be better.

some major things have happened since the last time i posted! a campaign ended, people voted and obama actually won! i supported obama and knew he was up in the polls, but i was still terrified that something would happen...people wouldn't show up to vote...ballots would be lost...a freakish amount of people would go crazy and vote mccain/palin. when he was announced president elect, i couldn't quite believe it.

i was in chicago for his rally, but wasn't really planning on going down to grant park. instead i went to a viewing party out at one of my new roommate's friend's apartments (oh yeah, i got an apartment in chicago...what?!). but after california's votes were in and they made the announcement, we had to go down. we toasted the win with a glass of cheap champagn and jumped on the train downtown. by the time we got down to the park, we could hear him starting to speak, which meant it was time to do a mad sprint down michigan avenue trying not to loose my flip flops. we finally made it to a decent viewing spot and it was absolutely amazing.

the vibe was, well, hopeful. hundreds of thousands of people came out to see this man who had managed to move people to believe that we could do better as a country, that we had to do better. his speech was amazing and the feeling in grant park that night was unforgetable. and it was great to see everyone out there - people of all ages, races, socio-economic background all came out to support him. it was historic. plus, people were wearing these tee-shirts that i was convinced they made in their basements with their bedazzler. my two favorites included one which was a black tee with gold bedazzlement of obama's face...very bling-tastic...and the other was a knock off of the last lollapalooza tee shirts that said "obamapalooza 2008" and on the back it said something like "october 4, 2008. the day change happen." clearly there were too many letters on the back of that shirt and they couldn't fit the "ed" on the end of "happened" to make it grammatically correct. did that stop that from selling them for $10 a shirt? heck no!

amazing.

there are pictures, but my camera went a little haywire and i can't get them onto my computer. gotta figure that out.