To Everyone, especially Lynn Doyle

Lynn, I know that you watched the inauguration at some point yesterday, and most likely the evening post-coverage with Stone Philips and limited commercial interruption (I hope I'm not assuming too much?) Did you, or anyone else who watched the "historic" coverage notice something about this event as with all other important events in American history that happened over our life time? "We always remember where we were when this happened..." The media stressed this point, unrelentingly at times, that we, or at least my parents, not I in particular, know where we were when JFK was assinated (my mother was as Catholic boarding school in California), where we were on 9/11 (I was in my first class, history, of my second freshman year in high school at 9a.m, at a boarding school in New Hampshire. Where were you on this inauguration? I was in the most nondescript place I have ever known, my Denmark, Wilson Hall.

In order to remember the event, we remember where we were. You think to yourself, "Obama is being inaugurated right now, and this is important stuff." And you look around you filing the elements of this bureaucratic mausoleum into the Loci of your brain so you wont forget this unprecedented day: pale mustard colored walls, no windows (which took me three years to realize), a lectern, a chalk board with residual textuality smeaked across it, some speakers with their flagellum wires in a tangle, and lots of chairs with no lumbar support.