Inauguration!!

I am still jetlagged beyond belief (I swear, I haven't been this jetlagged for a long time) and classes are starting and my act is so not together and my brain has exploded a billion times yesterday reading comments on the Great Cultural Appropriation Debate of DOOM, part Umptymillion and I have complicated feelings about the rhetoric of the USA and the (US of) American dream thanks to finishing Octavian Nothing 2 a few days earlier and my own personal issues about nationality and belonging and I still have my own doubts and there is the economy and all, but.

But.

Oh people, I did not think I would ever see this in my lifetime.

And I should write more to counter the massive word-splooge of doubt and fear and hesitation, because oh, so much of that is because I am afraid still of what will come and what our new President has to see us through and I am afraid of being part of that "us." But.

I feel as though a long nightmare is over, and the dawn is breaking.