Inaug09 What Will I Remember

Someday in the future when the inauguration of '09 is very much in our past, what will we remember? I hope I remember the feeling of excitement in the crowd. I hope I remember what one person I interviewed referred to as a sense of unity. I hope I remember the well wishes for Barack Obama. I hope I remember black and white folks crushed into metro cars with very few complaints.

The adventures Cheryl Harrison and I found/created during the past few days will be easier to remember:

• Watching Ludacris perform just feet from me,
• Testing about 50 monitors for CCNV Homeless Shelter,
• Dancing at Madam's Organ,
• Wandering the streets with masses of other wanderers, all intent on finding someplace to be when the inauguration took place,
• Singing along at the Metro Ball, and
• Recording the Metro Minstrel during the Metro Ball.

I think I will also remember the day to day:

• Tweeting everything,
• Editing and posting video as often as possible,
• Catching sleep when I could,
• Interviewing, or trying to interview, folks in the metro, on the street, wherever we found them.

Folks asked me if going was worth the craziness. My answer is definite - ABSOLUTELY.