I've been in more or less a news blackout during the residency, because there's very little time for the outside world to penetrate. It's unbelievably nice to tune back in for this Inauguration. There are some days you just feel lucky to be alive in these particular times, and this is one of them. Hope is the only word, isn't it?
(Lecture down, and seemed to go well, and tonight grad reading with Micol and Lynda, which'll be fun. Tomorrow, graduation, and then life returns to normal. Dogs and revision. I can't wait, even though I'm having a blast.)
"All about us is noise"–Elizabeth Alexander was amazing.
I read that as I’ve been in more or less a news blackout during the Presidency, which in retrospect seems like it might have been a nice way to spend the last eight years.