Midge just called (6:00 a.m. EDT) and she and Jay are ready to hit the road east. "I'm still geeked," she said, "about Barack Obama last night." As life long Democrats, mad fans of the Kennedy's and 60's girls, we are in the Obama column for sure. He does remind me of the candidate John Kennedy. Pundits called him inexperienced and undistinguished as well. I think Obama holds enormous promise to catch the zeitgeist, the moment, and make a huge difference. It's what Bill Clinton did as well, and Ronald Reagan and, somehow, Richard Nixon. It does seem like magic, this charisma thing. Although labeling it charisma slights it - it's something else, something subtle and ephemeral. By the way, keep an eye on David Patterson, New York's got-there-the-odd-way governor. He's got the goods.
One more work day to the lovely Labor Day holiday. It is a gift, a last sigh of summer, a time for garden and family and of course, the New Paltz Arts and Crafts show, end-of-summer version. I'll be there with my new friends Shelly, Marda and Pat and perhaps Jackie, who joined the staff in July as the new VP for Administration & Finance.
I have a phone call at 9:00, meetings at 10:00 and 11:00 and a lunch date. Then it would be amazing to actually finish the analysis of the Graduating Senior Survey. In any event, the day will end and it will be - ta da - Labor Day weekend.
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