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I’m very excited about it, anyway.

Now that I’m home, I’ve been able to catch up on much of the day’s internets — Shakesville in particular had a TON of inauguration-related posts, complete with videos of the good parts. Matt made dinner and found inauguration coverage on Comcast On Demand, so I got to see everything and pretend it was live! Only this was better ’cause I cracked a bottle of wine we’d been saving and enjoyed that throughout the proceedings.

And now the live Daily Show is on! Which I can enjoy with everyone, no matter what time we all watched the festivities.

Will update this post later with links to aforementioned videos and other good posts.

The Promised Edit, Avec Links

Saturday’s moving opening prayer from Rev. Gene Robinson, via The Swivet

Abi Sutherland of Making Light points out that “Today is like a wedding”

Shakesville points out Bush’s total discomfort with the whole affair

Kate Harding at Shapely Prose posts video of Aretha Franklin singing “‘My Country, ‘Tis of Thee’ while wearing the best hat in the history of millinery”

C-SPAN video of Barack Obama’s inauguration and address, via YouTube

Transcript of Obama’s inaugural address, at the Washington Post

Text of Elizabeth Alexander’s poem “Praise song for the day”, at Branches Up Roots Down

MSNBC video of Rev. Joseph Lowery’s benediction, via YouTube …

… and transcript, at the Chicago Sun-Times

A discussion of the unusually “safe” language of Obama’s speech and the whitewashing of his ancestor invocation — all the more striking aganst Rev. Lowery’s powerful prayer — at Diary of an Anxious Black Woman

Back at Shakesville: Video of Bush getting into the helicopter and leaving (just for that feeling of closure)

Also at Shakesville: Video of the new President and First Lady dancing to “At Last”, sung by Beyoncé

That’s it for the night. We made it to today, folks. The work begins bright and early tomorrow morning.

I would love to watch the inauguration and the address and everything, but I am far too buried at work (and not to mention some associated bullshit with a boundary I decided to draw and someone decided to challenge). I am avoiding the entire internet because I won’t know shit about the inauguration until after 7 p.m. and I do not want it spoiled.

Instead I am MOTHERFUCKING PISSED that this whole celebration is going on around me, while I have to put my head down and get these pages done. If this is a “where were you when…” moment, then I was at work, not paying attention, and absolutely incensed about it.

Working onscreen has its own galaxy of bullshit, including the fact that 500 pages looks almost exactly like “not doing much”. Printed out, 500 pages makes a stack of paper about 10 inches high and clearly communicates how busy I am. One-page workflow sheets don’t have the same gravitas.

Which adds to the rage, let me assure you.

I hate to run a blog where all the posts have apologies for not blogging. Unfortunately, that’s what I seem to have. I like having a blog more than I like writing in it (or maintaining it, if I can judge by the nag box in the Wordpress dashboard).

So here’s my resolution: One post, every month, for the rest of 2009. More is good, but not expected.

I’ll try what the pro bloggers suggest, even if it gives me hives: a schedule. *gasp!* Yes. I’ll prepare something in advance and post it, oh, around the 10th of the month.

Look for something new here then. I mean it this time.