Thoughts

I couldn't think of anything original to entitle this post so I went with the blatantly obvious.

Today was...interesting. I did not go to work today. I had planned on it, but it just didn't happen. This morning Keri and I went to the Ernest F. Hollings Special Collections Library Dedication. I know, sounds excruciatingly boring right? Well, I'm not what you would call apt to attend library dedications. However, 47th Vice President of the United States of America Joe Biden was attending and if it's important enough for him to show up then it must be sort of a big deal. Fritz Hollings is South Carolina career politician who after being SC Governor went on to spend like his entire life in the US Senate. Now that he's retired, having nothing better to do, he secured $14 million of federal funds for us to put a big addition on our library. Yay! And apparently he and Biden are best buds. Whatever. So Keri and I went, and I wore my yellow dress with my super cute striped heels. Was it painful? Of course but I looked amazing. That whole deal took forever. We showed up super early so that security wouldn't have a line which was a good choice. It didn't end until like 2 and we were starved so we decided to skip the tour. It's not like we don't live here or anything. Lunch = five guys = happy place. At that point research was not going to happen for either of us.

Then we went to Keri's apartment and watched a Scooby Doo movie followed by a couple episodes of Rocky and Bullwinkle. Oh. My. Gosh. Go find an episode online because they are freaking hilarious. For those who don't know, Rocket J. Squirrel and Bullwinkle J. Moose started in 1959 and moved to a weekly Sunday show on NBC in 1961 which ran until 1965. A few thoughts: I am in love with Bullwinkle. For real. Cutest character ever. And it is so educational. After a bit of the main adventure, we go to story time, followed by some poetry from Bullwinkle and a history lesson courtesy of Peabody, and then we add on a little more adventure. Perfect. And can we talk about the anti-Russian propaganda? Thank you Cold War. Holy Cow. How did any of these kids grow up not hating russians? And I swear there are several Hitler references. Frankly, I'm surprised my parents don't have some crazy paranoia about east europeans. I mean, really. Wow.