I am on it.

All the cool kids have one, or so I am told. I’m generally horrible about social networking sites. The big draw of Facebook for me, lately, has been finding people I went to high school with and staying connected to current and former coworkers — especially since my best friend set a Tetris Marathon score so high I can only gaze at it in wistful amazement, my attempts to beat it falling comically short.

LinkedIn has no such distractions. Also, I am also advised that it’s professionally beneficial and I am a total lemming in this job market, it’s best not to take chances.

Now, to see if I can find a nice, professional photo of myself to add (LinkedIn is nagging me because I have not uploaded one, nor have I been “recommended” by any of my shiny new connections). Most of my self-taken photos are, shall we say, candid. Not a very put-together presentation of myself. Okay, okay: I tend to be wearing the same old ratty sweater and holding a cat.

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.