Back from the big hoo-ha dinner

It was fun. I'm going to post some photos tomorrow - I didn't take that many, wasn't sure if it was poor form. And by the time I learned it wasn't poor form, I already missed Paula Zahn (who was quite fabulous with frizzy hair and very sleek black dress, and who couldn't be nicer), and General Clark (who also couldn't be nicer, great handshake too).

Anyway, I'll fill you in more tomorrow, and fret not, I do have a couple great photos, one in particular will I suspect make you howl.

In answer to a few of the questions in the comments:

1. No I didn't have a date, the tix are hard to get, I don't think 'date' is part of the mix.

2. Yes it was a tux malfunction. Total disaster when the tie fell apart right at the time I was supposed to already be there. It also didn't help that my tenth floor apartment elevator suddenly broke when Joe was bringing over the suspenders. Anyway, it all worked out, after I unfairly ripped Joe's head off for messing up my tie :-)

3. No Tweety.

4. Did see Tim Russert however, he's an enormous man. Think Hagrid.

5. Hung out with the blog chicks a bit, more on that tomorrow.

6. Cheney's first joke, or 2nd, was about the NSA illegal spying. I didn't laugh.

7. CNN, great margaritas, who knew?

8. No Mary, they brought the straight daughter Elizabeth.

Okay, gotta get up at the ungodly hour of 6:30 tomorrow, in less than 6 hours, which for me is living death. Gotta give a presentation about blogging, ugh. Presentation will be fun, but 8am lectures. Obscene.