Argh, I was scoring a student placement test during the Oath of Office and the speech. Student X, WHY mst you ALWAYS take up twenty times as long as everyone else, and then defer your decision AGAIN, and then get angry with me when your options have narrowed? Next term I am not putting up with this. Neither is the Registrar.

Anyway ...the rest of the time I have been listening to the radio coverage. All I can say is YES!!! And please, let everyone work together. I know the shiny will be off soon enough. I am not waiting for, as xstinebee said, my box of puppies and rainbows. But looking at the faces of my students, of the Target clerk when I said, "THIS is a GOOD day," of the people in my neighborhood who have been walking oh, just a little straighter since 11/04 .... Please, let's start from there and end in triumph for all of us.