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( Home Sick )

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( 'Waitress' )

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( Karaoke & a birthday )

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( Old Friends )

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( B5 )

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( E Ch )

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( Misc )

Ethan invited me to the Inauguration Celebration for Deval Patrick. I was so excited :-)
(Then David Friedman went and got hired for the French Embassy's New Years Gala, and so was going to a bigger Ball than I. Hee!)

And I stayed so excited, and tried not to brag, and I dressed up (bought new strappy black shoes, too), and went to the Inaugaration event itself (oaths of office before the Boston Common -- 50 degrees F!).
Deciding to go to the swearing-in was a last minute decision. I had my streaming internet radio all set up to listen in. But then, some time after the stirring Invocation (by R. Pesner) it felt insincere to go to the celebration but relegate the event itself to the virtual. I am one of that "public" that he is trying to include (complaints of others that it is a school day, aside)!
I arrived in time for Deval's speech, and was positively impressed by what I heard.


oh yeah and then --- I went to the Inauguration Ball!
And it was lots of fun :-)

There was much less dancing than I'd expected (although I decided to remedy that myself at the end of the night, me and my vodka+cranberry dance-partner) but more distinct musical acts at a time. It was in the big Convention Center and used lots of different rooms. There were too many different groups performing at once for me to get to them all. The only one I'd really heard of was Yo Yo Ma. (And I did get to the room that he was performing in.) Lots of them were "funk" of some variety, according to the descriptions. I liked all of them that I heard.

The most fun part was people watching. Because performers were in so many rooms, spread across the Center, there was a constant flow of dressed-up attendees back and forth. Everyone seemed happy and made eye-contact.

Ethan knows tons of people now, from having given over like his life to the campaign for months. I met a good number of them, and got to spend time with the bunch of his friends/pod-mates who were renting a block of hotel rooms together.
The hotel was a good idea, and it's about 10/15 minutes away from my Downtown office, so it was sweet to stay there.

My office has better elevators, though :-D