I'm in the office EARLY this morning -- by 6:30. It's way too early for me. I'm an afternoon/evening type. And this semester my schedule should support that. I don't start teaching until 1:05 on Tuesdays and Thursdays. I have my first weekly meeting at 2:30 or so on Wednesdays. And I have office hours at 2 on Mondays, then practicum (which I'm sitting in on) at 3:30. But today I'm here very very early. I saw the sun come up. You know what I realized? Sunrises are overrated.
Okay, that's not really true. I'm just not thrilled about being up this early. it was a transportation/scheduling issue that shouldn't happen again (she says, knocking on wood). And I should be doing work. Since I have all of the morning to work on assignment schedules and such. But I didn't get enough sleep, so I'm pretty sluggish this morning.
Which gives me a good opportunity to watch Obama's speech last night. I missed it last night (I know, I know, I'm a bad person), but happily it's online in full. So I've been watching/listening to that.
I saw Obama very early in the campaign and, to be honest, I wasn't impressed. He seemed naive (and I'm not necessarily talking about lack of political experience). He kept sort of tripping on his words and sticking his foot in his mouth.
But this is an impressive speech. He's come a long way. He's much more charismatic and smooth than he was before. That's both a good thing and a bad thing. But it makes me believe that he has surrounded himself with good advisors and speech writers. I'm happy about that. I don't agree with all of his policies, but I don't agree with all of anybody's policies. I just wonder how much of this he can actually achieve. How much of any of this will actually get done? How much is actually in a candidate's control? In a president's control? I don't really know. I mean that seriously. I don't mean that as a statement posed as a question. I honestly don't know.
I guess, happily, we'll find out, one way or the other.
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Not that you would ever listen to Rush Limbaugh, but did you know that he called out Republicans in Texas to vote for Obama in the primary, because Hillary was deemed to be a tougher candidate to beat? I was pretty worried about the whole democratic ticket until the convention. Hopefully, there were a lot of Hillary supporters who saw that, as one of my favorite political writers said, "it would be better to stick hypodermic needles in both eyes than suffer another republican presidency." Too political for Abby's blog? If so, feel free to delete. The whole reason I posted was to say that I read "Dreams of My Father" at Grandma's cabin this summer, and feel a whole lot better about who Obama is and whether he'll be able to do the job. Plus also, I'm liking his response to the whole Sarah Palin's daughter's pregnancy blah blah blah non-issue.
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