It's happening already!!!

So today was my first day back at work after being out sick for over a week. I'm still sick, and would have stayed home had I not already been a week behind in work and Congress is back tomorrow, so I convinced my darling husband to chauffeur me to work this morning instead of my usual morning walk. Traffic was a nightmare! We live near Obama transition headquarters, which normally causes traffic problems, but now every road around it is shut down in anticipation of the inauguration. I work a few blocks away from the White House (and the Hay-Adams Hotel --where the Obama's are staying) and have to pass it on my way to work, all the streets around the White House are closed. Traffic nightmare!

Then, this afternoon I had a meeting on the Senate side of the Hill, my cab took forever to get to the Hill because of all the road closures, and we couldn't get near the Senate side because the roads were closed there in anticipation of an Obama motorcade. The President-Elect is on the Hill today. So fearing I would be late for my meeting, I got out of the taxi, and ran my flu-riddled-sneezing-coughing-hacking disaster of a body up Capitol Hill--in 3 inch heels no less. I had the bad luck of hitting the Capitol the same time Obama's motorcade got there. They even stopped all pedestrian movement! FOILED!!! Blah. I was 20 minutes late to my meeting. I can't even imagine what life is going to be like here during the inauguration.