Nora's Barack Blog

hey there,

well I've been here for pretty much exactly a week. I have alot of words to sum up my experience, but the best word is probably tired. Really tired. We have been working non-stop pretty much, and this weekend we had the madness of running 2 seperate 4,000 person trainings. Our first one on Saturday was pretty much just a complete clusterfuck, but by sunday we had worked out all the kinks and the next two days ran really smoothly. I have gotten a reasonable amount of sleep, as much as you'd expect for someone working on this committee. The supporter housing and everything is still working out great, they are so nice and basically a second family. We are moving from there on thursday though to a new house. Which apparently is closer to a metro stop so we don't have to take cabs everywhere. That will be a nice change. I got a chance to walk around alot today to sort of map out or location for the big day. It was also a nice sight seeing oppurtunity. Headed to spots like the lincoln, washington, korean war, vietnam war, and WWII memorial. All great and really interesting spots. Besides that it's been alot of office work and dealing with volunteers. And ofcourse getting super excited about the upcoming inauguration...just one week away!! And then attending all the fancy balls. I will be pretty tired at the youth ball since it is the night of the inauguration but i'll do my best to look nice. Well that's pretty much it. Although i did buy 2 for 1 hot dogs yesterday, thinking I would only eat one and just take the other one because it was free, but did indeed end up eating both..and then throwing up later that night. Thats pretty much all the excitement for now..

here are a few pics....