I'm not confident when I started watching the State of the Union address. Sometime in high school. I'm confident that I watched it every year in college, and have some pretty fond memories of those experiences. (How nerdy is that? Warning, half of you who read this are included in those memories.)
I don't remember being aware that the address was coming up, but last night I thought about it as I went to sleep, making a note that I needed to find out when it was (didn't think I'd missed it yet) and find a way to watch it. Woke up this morning to the announcement that it was tonight and then nearly forgot by the time it came on.
Thankfully, I was procrastinating by looking at the news and had 10 minutes to find places to watch it.
Tried CNN first, but the audio kept skipping out. So then I started steaming audio from NPR, but it was out of sync with my video. Switched to the video from the White House. It's more in sync with the audio (the audio with has too much background noise). The video's amusing though. Keeps malfunctioning somehow. See below for an example of what I mean. (Edit: blogger's having difficulty posting images, check back later.)
I'm distracted enough by the process of trying to get this together that I'm not really paying attention to the speech. I miss having running commentary with other people in the room. I'm home alone tonight, and not anticipating more phone calls, so it's not like I'll even discuss this tonight. And I don't know enough to feel like I could discuss if you called. (Though I'm paying more attention as I write this. And I'm being reminded of different friends I listen. To the friend who's vocal against wiretapping, I think you just lost any hope.....)
Hmmm...this is a great way to keep procrastinating, but I should grade tests. Bush should be nearly done......And then there's the response....
Edit: He finished one minute after I hit publish post.
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