Presidential

I know this is actually a week late… but it happens.

Last Thursday I had the opportunity to go to Ford's Chicago Assembly Plant and here the president give a speech.

Now I'm not overly political, I believe people are entitled to certain rights and should be afforded them. I'm more of a humanitarian than a politician.

Regardless of your opinions of the president, he can deliver an amazing speech, and just because he was in his home town [although that does help].

Last year, in my second to last term, I had a lovely English course on "Writing Faith, Justice and Love" or something like that. My professor is interested in rhetoric, so during the course we got a crash course in what makes a good speech, well good.

Obama obviously is able to connect with his audience. However, he does more than just that. His speeches always connect to a great achievement in the past, and then transitions into a hard time and ending with a triumph.

His ability to relate the history to the present is amazing. And I know as I say this he doesn't write all of his speeches. But he has the charisma to deliver.

It doesn't matter how well a speech is written; if the speaker doesn't create a rhythm there is no connection.

Just wanted to share this awesome experience, my first presidential speech.

rewind

Some mornings you just know its going to be a bad day. Today was one of those days.

It's amazing how one little thing triggers a day of unfortunate events. Nothing catastrophic, just numerous little events that add up to be a huge annoyance.

My solution a rewind button. And I'm not talking about a Groundhog Day situation of having to redo the same actions until you do everything right. I want a rewind that reboots the system and starts anew. A different day with completely different options.

Now, I'm not asking this rewind to be a perfect day, just better than today.

Busy as a bee

The term "busy as bee" comes from the lovely Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. However, the phrase is slightly depressing to me when I think of the term quite literally. Which bees are the busy ones? The drones. And somehow relating myself to drone is not very comforting.

I'd like to think that my work is not confined to the same routine day after day. Still, as humans we are plagued to be repetitive. Thankfully this week will shake up my drone like nature.

While I will be pushing out the magazine this week at work, I also will be traveling to Ford's Chicago Assembly Plant to hear President Obama.

I think this week may win best week of the year...