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Do You Remember Where You Were When Obama Was Inaugurated?

So tomorrow history will be made. Just like election night last November, I'm pretty sure tomorrow morning will be another one of those moments for our generation in which we will always remember where we were. We haven't had many of such moments, and I'm glad that this one will be mixed with "happy" unlike some of the other memorable moments we've had. See, e.g., 9/11, Bush's 2000 win, Bush's 2004 win, Crystal Pepsi.

Anyway, it seems to me that somewhere around half of my friends are going to be in D.C. for the inauguration tomorrow. Of course, given the scarcity of tickets, I sincerely doubt any of them will see any of the proceedings from a good vantage point. But they will forever be able to say that they were there the day the first African American President was sworn in. Lucky b*stards.

Unfortunately, I, like many of you I assume, are not so lucky and will be watching either at home, or perhaps at one of the campus locations. At least we'll be a part of history in another way: TV ratings of the inauguration are expected set new TV ratings records. Some are predicting up to 5 billion will watch the event on TV. That's just crazy.

If you didn't see the emails, there are two locations to view the inauguration with fellow Berkeleyians tomorrow: in Sproul Plaza starting at 7:30 AM or with your fellow law students in Booth.

I thought I'd post this entry for all those with interesting stories of the inauguration in D.C. (or possibly more interesting stories of the parties occurring last weekend in D.C.). Anybody see Nancy Pelosi doing victory keg stands or Bush throwing away all the "O" keys from the Whitehouse computers?* Lay your stories of D.C. debauchery upon those of us not lucky enough to witness the madness firsthand.

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*Ok, I totally bogarted that last joke from Jon Stewart.

Full post as published by Nuts & Boalts on January 19, 2009 (boomark / email).