books, the universe, and everything » barack obama http://www.booksuniverseeverything.com Fri, 03 Feb 2012 04:21:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Election Day/Night http://www.booksuniverseeverything.com/2008/11/06/election-daynight/ http://www.booksuniverseeverything.com/2008/11/06/election-daynight/#comments Fri, 07 Nov 2008 02:58:26 +0000 chowmeyow http://booksuniverseeverything.wordpress.com/?p=715 I love this video…when else has anyone seen New Yorkers burst into a jubilant Star Spangled Banner in the streets of Manhattan?

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My election day and evening were wonderful. Ryan and I got up early and arrived at the polls about 7:05am. We waited about a half hour to vote, and had no trouble or problems at all.

We had a fabulous time at our election night party. It was so awesome to be with many fabulous friends during the incredible evening. We actually heard Jon Stewart call the election first, during Indecision 2008, before we heard it officially called anywhere else. That was fantastic – and very fitting since it was Jon Stewart and the Daily Show team that kept me sane during this long election. I detoxed with their wit and humor every night.

We popped a bottle of champagne. We ate cupcakes (Yes We Cancakes, according to our menu). We cried during Obama’s speech. We wandered around Hoboken a bit, cheering with strangers. It was an excellent night.

I posted photos of the party (actually, they are mostly taken before, of the decorations – I was too distracted and excited during the party to take many photos) on my flickr page. Here’s one of my favorites, our apartment on the morning of Election day:

The posters I used to decorate the apartment were all taken from an awesome site – http://www.designforobama.org/ – that has hundreds of free Obama posters you can print in multiple sizes.

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]]> http://www.booksuniverseeverything.com/2008/11/06/election-daynight/feed/ 0 Happy Election Day! http://www.booksuniverseeverything.com/2008/11/04/happy-election-day/ http://www.booksuniverseeverything.com/2008/11/04/happy-election-day/#comments Tue, 04 Nov 2008 12:10:30 +0000 chowmeyow http://booksuniverseeverything.wordpress.com/?p=712 We don’t get I Voted stickers in Hoboken, so I’m putting a badge on my Vox instead:

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]]> http://www.booksuniverseeverything.com/2008/11/04/happy-election-day/feed/ 0 No Barack :( http://www.booksuniverseeverything.com/2008/04/21/no-barack/ http://www.booksuniverseeverything.com/2008/04/21/no-barack/#comments Tue, 22 Apr 2008 01:25:45 +0000 chowmeyow http://booksuniverseeverything.wordpress.com/?p=570 Barack’s plane was delayed in Pittsburgh and he couldn’t make it to the show. :(

Jon still interviewed him via satellite, but I wish we could have seen him in person.

It was still very fun though. Seeing Jon Stewart is awesome on its own. And we got free doughnuts, and VIP tickets to Paul Mecurio’s show on Saturday.

I have a lot of pictures from this weekend, Emma and I walked all over the city and went to what is probably a world record number of bookstores in a two day period.

I’ll update with pictures from our adventures, pictures of cupcakes, overdue memes, and more as soon as I’m not completely pooped, and have two seconds to put together.

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]]> http://www.booksuniverseeverything.com/2008/04/21/no-barack/feed/ 0 The Daily Show tomorrow! http://www.booksuniverseeverything.com/2008/04/20/the-daily-show-tomorrow/ http://www.booksuniverseeverything.com/2008/04/20/the-daily-show-tomorrow/#comments Sun, 20 Apr 2008 23:50:43 +0000 chowmeyow http://booksuniverseeverything.wordpress.com/?p=567

I am so so so excited!

My friend Emma is visiting right now for her spring break, and back in February we reserved tickets to the Daily Show for tomorrow, while she would be here.

Today I just found out who tomorrow’s guest is.

BARACK OBAMA!!

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