Tuesday, March 18, 2008

This is how nerdy I am


Hillary Clinton will be releasing records of her time as First Lady. Literal records of her time -- the kind of detail that only journalists (and apparently right-wing conspiracy theorists) actually sue for. So tomorrow, the Clinton library (the other Clinton's library) will release details of her calendar.

In 1997, we invited the then-First Lady to speak at a conference The San Diego Union-Tribune sponsored about preventing youth violence. It was a cool conference -- one of the highlights of my time as Solutions Editor. We had lots of great how-to panels from groups who had had success engaging kids and educating parents and offering mentoring.

She declined. However, she offered to send a video welcome message. So, somewhere on her calender in 1997 there will be a time blocked off to tape said message -- and, I assume, several others for other organizations -- and I'm just nerdy enough that I'm going to go look.

And, this is not exactly how I had hoped to blog about this, but,

it was amazing to me what a thrill it was to be in the voting booth and actually finally have the option to vote for a viable woman as a candidate for president. That said, Hillary's my candidate.

5 comments:

Jeri said...

LOL, I remember talking about Hillary on the nursing unit. Sandra and I were all for Hillary then and I don't know about Sandra, but I am now too.

karen said...

I really do have better things to do with my time -- like a gazillion 2-page reflections, 5-page theologies, 15-page research papers, 20-page New Testament biblical studies analyses...

Instead, I found what I was looking for on in August of 1997 on page 1273 of that year's calendar release.

It's here if you want to go look, but I know you have better things to do with your time, too.

Me, I'm still trying to solve the mystery of the unlikely photo juxtaposition of a friend from the newspaper world and friends from the church world.

Marian said...

Tee Hee! I'm so happy that you found my photo as fun as I did!

Orangeblossoms said...

Thanks be to God, I'm not alone in this! I have been so totally overwhelmed with Barak-y-ness of SO many people around me!

Orangeblossoms said...

Hey, on your poll, you should include Easter Sunrise AND Easter Sunday. The seriously serious come to Sunrise and I LOVE that.....