OH MY GOD.
GOT INTO WORK AT 5:45AM LEFT AT 1:30AM.
EVENTS PLANNING WHAT
i cant even
so i need to make a list to remember
- easy transport
- 24 hour dunkin donuts -- thank god for coffee
- immense line that stretched 4 blocks long AT 5:00AM. BEFORE IT EVEN OPENED
- breezing through ^ line
- having a secret service agent escort me to work
- changing into my nice work attire
- befriending anya on the 4th floor discussing hte immense 29 page list of VIPs i assembled >_>
- watching the inauguration from all floors! director's terrace!
- SURPRISE EAGLE ARRIVES. children and adults alike go insane. story is there's a woman who works here named holly who came dressed as a donkey last inauguration. she wanted to connect with "the young people" but did not know how--then the answer presented itself: buy an eagle costume.
- befriending greg vaughan the security man in the imagiNations activity center!
- escorting the head of the smithsonian secretary richard kurin and his entourage :O (by accident)
- huuge jumbo tron and delicious breakfast and lunch watching beyonce beast inauguration
- watching the schmoes on the Mall (heheh)
- secret service guy on top of our museum with the biggest guns ever
- 350 visitors!
- getting to nap sort of not really at all
- seeing the intersection of the parades meet at OUR museum corner--only to have the parade be delayed by nearly 2 hours
- FLOTUS and POTUS being bosses
- JOE BIDEN BEING THE WORST THING TO HAPPEN TO SECRET SERVICE. oh my god, the man seriously loves to please the crowds
- the reporters also being just as punchy after hours of no sleep and the lack of having anything substantive to say: "there joe biden goes, pushing flesh with the people--shaking hands with the crowd"
- changing into ball attire! wearing my (read: my mom's) diamonds :)
- seeing everyone in long black dresses haha
- THE WHOLE MUSEUM WAS BEAUTIFUL. ABSOLUTELY STUNNING
- the food was delicious
- the music was amazing: funk, bluegrass, country, oldies, etc.
- 1491s!!!
- crystal shawanda
- chaske spencer is really tall
- my boss's sequiny dress!
- seriously everyone looked _amazing_
- recognizing some congressmen and tribal leaders feeling super proud
- connecting more with rebecca ortiz
- laughing it up wtih larry
- listening to martha redbone and murray porter--and SPEED YODELING
- pear zingers (aka pear drinky drinks according to my boss after a few of them)
- blue digital is amazing photography--yay for sending emailed pictures to myself!
- meeting roylan bowechop from the makah tribe and making a fool of myself >_>
- dancing with a dude who SNUCK INTO THE BALL WHAT. AND WAS THE LIFE ON THE DANCEFLOOR? some dude named Richard
- dancing with my coworker's military boyfriend?!
- dancing (a lot) of HUSTLE and CHA CHA with a POTAWATOMI TRIBAL COUNCIL MEMBER?!
- the military boy breakdancing?!
- the assistant director of the museum moonwalking?!
- the founding director of the museum dancing up a storm and staying a half hour later than he intended, breaking all records?!
- 700 retweeted photos!
- amazing success all around, my boss' boss grabs a bottle of wine and says she's done for the night
BAM.
oh and
my shoes were so comfortable it wasnt until 12:30am i wanted to take them off. SUCCESS
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
NEXT UP: POST-BALL ANALYSIS & BOARD OF TRUSTEES MEETING.
GOT INTO WORK AT 5:45AM LEFT AT 1:30AM.
EVENTS PLANNING WHAT
i cant even
so i need to make a list to remember
- easy transport
- 24 hour dunkin donuts -- thank god for coffee
- immense line that stretched 4 blocks long AT 5:00AM. BEFORE IT EVEN OPENED
- breezing through ^ line
- having a secret service agent escort me to work
- changing into my nice work attire
- befriending anya on the 4th floor discussing hte immense 29 page list of VIPs i assembled >_>
- watching the inauguration from all floors! director's terrace!
- SURPRISE EAGLE ARRIVES. children and adults alike go insane. story is there's a woman who works here named holly who came dressed as a donkey last inauguration. she wanted to connect with "the young people" but did not know how--then the answer presented itself: buy an eagle costume.
- befriending greg vaughan the security man in the imagiNations activity center!
- escorting the head of the smithsonian secretary richard kurin and his entourage :O (by accident)
- huuge jumbo tron and delicious breakfast and lunch watching beyonce beast inauguration
- watching the schmoes on the Mall (heheh)
- secret service guy on top of our museum with the biggest guns ever
- 350 visitors!
- getting to nap sort of not really at all
- seeing the intersection of the parades meet at OUR museum corner--only to have the parade be delayed by nearly 2 hours
- FLOTUS and POTUS being bosses
- JOE BIDEN BEING THE WORST THING TO HAPPEN TO SECRET SERVICE. oh my god, the man seriously loves to please the crowds
- the reporters also being just as punchy after hours of no sleep and the lack of having anything substantive to say: "there joe biden goes, pushing flesh with the people--shaking hands with the crowd"
- changing into ball attire! wearing my (read: my mom's) diamonds :)
- seeing everyone in long black dresses haha
- THE WHOLE MUSEUM WAS BEAUTIFUL. ABSOLUTELY STUNNING
- the food was delicious
- the music was amazing: funk, bluegrass, country, oldies, etc.
- 1491s!!!
- crystal shawanda
- chaske spencer is really tall
- my boss's sequiny dress!
- seriously everyone looked _amazing_
- recognizing some congressmen and tribal leaders feeling super proud
- connecting more with rebecca ortiz
- laughing it up wtih larry
- listening to martha redbone and murray porter--and SPEED YODELING
- pear zingers (aka pear drinky drinks according to my boss after a few of them)
- blue digital is amazing photography--yay for sending emailed pictures to myself!
- meeting roylan bowechop from the makah tribe and making a fool of myself >_>
- dancing with a dude who SNUCK INTO THE BALL WHAT. AND WAS THE LIFE ON THE DANCEFLOOR? some dude named Richard
- dancing with my coworker's military boyfriend?!
- dancing (a lot) of HUSTLE and CHA CHA with a POTAWATOMI TRIBAL COUNCIL MEMBER?!
- the military boy breakdancing?!
- the assistant director of the museum moonwalking?!
- the founding director of the museum dancing up a storm and staying a half hour later than he intended, breaking all records?!
- 700 retweeted photos!
- amazing success all around, my boss' boss grabs a bottle of wine and says she's done for the night
BAM.
oh and
my shoes were so comfortable it wasnt until 12:30am i wanted to take them off. SUCCESS
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
NEXT UP: POST-BALL ANALYSIS & BOARD OF TRUSTEES MEETING.
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