...is the day that it votes for barack obama. i am definitely supposed to be writing a paper but can't seem to tear myself away from the election coverage. i think i will probably be nervous for the next four hours at least. lacey and i headed to the polls around 9:20 this morning and i got pulled to the front of a reeeeeeeally long line not once, but twice. apparently it pays to live in toftrees. i also like to think it has something to do with the new hair cut and color (i did not get pulled to the front of lines in 2000 or 2004). i actually can't believe this is my third presidential election. i can't imagine how old this must make my parents feel ;) even more impressive is that over 1,000 students had turned up to vote at the station located in the HUB (the student center building on campus) by 7:00 this morning. Check out this video. It's really impressive.
i don't want to dominate this post with politcs, but i did think that this was really cute. i have a cousin whose daughter walked around during Christmas echoing, "i'm barack obama and i approved this message." i thought nothing could top it until one of our students sent me this video of his daughter touting cheers of "obama '08." you know you'll love it.
i haven't gotten any pictures from our group efforts this weekend yet, but i can post a couple of previews. this one is kenneth (papa smurf - who i don't actually know but totally swiped these pictures from), becca (as the camp counselor from nickelodeon's salute your shorts), and matt in the background doing something very official looking (as one of the officers from reno 911).
another picture that i think is adorable is one from lacey's album that shows her (far right) with jeremy, carmen, and kristin (from left to right) at the speech given here by bill clinton last week. i couldn't make it since i had a pretty packed afternoon, but these are probably the four people that i know (another would be ms. becca schlegel) that wouldn't have missed it. there's a rumor that both lacey and kristin got the pleasure of shaking mr. clinton's hand. no word yet as to if either has washed their hands since the blessed event.
okay, one more nonpolitical message to come. some of you may remember the excellentness (yes, that's totally a word) of the victory of penn state over ohio state two weekends ago. as would be expected, there was some excitement at the victory that escalated to what the local papers depicted as riot status. in fact there are some pretty crazy pictures that came from the student newspaper showing the madness. and while some of the events shown are certainly unfortunate, but if you get the time, flip through to #41 - my personal favorite, showing a student leading a crowd in what i imagine as a cheer from his post at the top of a light post. makes me giggle even now to think about it.
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