Public Service Announcement
Jan. 18th, 2009 08:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fauxkloreFor those planning on going down to the National Mall to watch the inauguration, consider the following:
1) You have a choice of seeing the swearing-in or the parade. There is a faint chance that, if you are willing to stand around from 5 a.m. to 2 p.m. you might catch glimpses of the parade. There is no chance you will see the actual swearing-in ceremony on anything other than a Jumbotron on the Mall unless you are very well-connected. If you are that well-connected, you would not be reading my blog for advice on this.
2) They are predicting a high temperature of 31 degrees Fahrenheit on Tuesday. The daytime high is normally about 3 p.m., so it will be colder than that the entire time you will be outside.
3) Two million or more people. Five thousand port-a-potties. Need I say more?
If despite all this, you do attend, remember the cardinal rule of Washington. When taking the metro, stand right, walk left.
1) You have a choice of seeing the swearing-in or the parade. There is a faint chance that, if you are willing to stand around from 5 a.m. to 2 p.m. you might catch glimpses of the parade. There is no chance you will see the actual swearing-in ceremony on anything other than a Jumbotron on the Mall unless you are very well-connected. If you are that well-connected, you would not be reading my blog for advice on this.
2) They are predicting a high temperature of 31 degrees Fahrenheit on Tuesday. The daytime high is normally about 3 p.m., so it will be colder than that the entire time you will be outside.
3) Two million or more people. Five thousand port-a-potties. Need I say more?
If despite all this, you do attend, remember the cardinal rule of Washington. When taking the metro, stand right, walk left.
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Date: 2009-01-18 03:09 pm (UTC)I plan to cower in my condo (next to the heater (which is, alas, having trouble keeping up in this particular record cold) and catch up on reading journal articles, but will likely have the television on for part of the day.
I am too old to deal with the unwashed masses. And the dearth of port-a-potties.