President Barack Obama

Today the new president of the United states was inaugurated. I watched most of it
on tv, albeit I got up a bit late..

and it's still all going now with Obama attending each of the 10 balls in Washington..

I have very little time left now in new york so I figure I should make a list of everything
I need to do before I left.

So I went to the Met opera tonight to try and get a rush ticket. They had sold out in
10 minutes apparently..but I somehow sweettalked the guy and got a $25 seat in row D (that's
four rows from the front..)

The opera was Gluck's Orfeo de Euridice. The mezzo-soprano playing Orfeo looked so much like
Dawn French's piss take of Jack in Titanic it was hard to take it seriously..but she was a brilliant singer..
There were many dance sequences in the opera with a chorus of dancers choreographed by Mark Morris.
Pretty great dancing, sleek, clean..and amazing costumes. The opera chorus were on massive tiered balconies - and each was dressed as a different historical figure - shakespeare, Queen Elizabeth, Princess Di, Ghandi, Charlie Chaplin, Cleopatra..it was stunning.


So I leave you with this hilarious video from David Letterman's Top ten - Why we'll all miss Bush..well, he was pretty entertaining..