"greatness is never a given...rather it has been the risk-takers, the doers, the makers of things"

Farewell, Bush regime and the eight years of atrocious irresponsibility, heinous judgment, and laugh-so-you-don't-cry soundbites which accompanied you. Here's to hope & change & all the rest.

Watched Obama's inauguration in the Wadham JCR, surrounded by Sarah Lawrence students and Wadhamites alike; it was almost impossible not to be moved by Obama's eloquent, powerful, told-it-like-it-is-but-here's-to-the-promise-of-the-future speech. "This will be the moment that defines a generation," he said. I guess that will come to be true for our generation; not the Clinton years; not the Bush travesty--Obama. That's what our generation will come into--and fingers crossed, four years from now, it will still look as bright as it does right now.