Archive for January, 2009

Inauguration Day and the chaos of millions

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009

So after some hemming and hawing about whether or not to go to the inauguration, But in the end, some urging by friends and the fading symptoms of the cold I’ve fought for the last week, I opted to go ahead and go.
And I gotta say, it was NUTS. Just insane numbers of people [...]

2008 in review, and where I am in 2009

Saturday, January 3rd, 2009

Everyone else is doing 2008 retrospectives, so I might as well too, right?
The most salient thing about last year is that it to me marked a sort of real liberation. In 2007, I graduated, moved to the DC area and started a “real job” with CACI in downtown arlington, but I wasn’t really making [...]