Convention, part I
I’m blogging live from Colorado at the College Democrats of America Convention, which is taking place before the DNCC. I apologize for the lack of posting before this, but last-minute convention preparations monopolized my time earlier this week, and I left for Denver on Thursday, thus joining the ranks of the huge blogger corps that will be covering this convention. Hopefully I’ll be able to manage an original thought or two, but let’s not get our hopes up too high.
I was discussing blogging with a couple of the other College Dems who are also doing blog projects for their schools, and we agreed it makes us feel a bit cliché. Like, “Oh, of course you have a blog – so does everyone else who thinks they’re more interesting than they actually are.” Or maybe that’s just my own anti-blogger bias.
Either way, it’s a weird task, with a fuzzy job description. I mean, if this were my personal blog (oh, this is making me nostalgic for my angsty Livejournal days), I’d be raking myself across the coals for not being outgoing enough and not trying hard enough to have fun, but I’m sure that doesn’t make the cut as appropriate discourse for an academic blog. On the other hand, who wants to read a laundry list of what I did today, with nothing personal to spice it up? I don’t even want to write that, much less read it.
I guess I’ll just have to try for a happy medium. Which is made more difficult by the fact that I’m so tired my eyes are crossing. Rather than recap, then, which is making me nod off just thinking about it, let me give you a brief overview of tomorrow, and then go to sleep and try to catch up on what I’ve done so far at some point in the near future. Tomorrow: I will be meeting the DemsAbroad delegation for the first time, which is super exciting, because so far I’ve e-mailed with these people ad nauseum, talked to them on the phone, heard countless stories about them from Lindsey, but have never met them face to face. So I’m looking forward to that.
I also have to figure out how to get our viral video played at the CDA (College Democrats of America) rally tomorrow night. Apparently a wireless connection ad the convention center is $420, so watching the video on youtube clearly isn’t going to happen. As Lindsey pointed out, it would have been nice to know this before we left DC, so we could have burned a DVD with the video and brought it with us, but if wishes were horses…Anyway, Lindsey told me to e-mail Jodi, our press person, to see if she has a high res copy of the file. So fingers crossed.
I also have to get one of our delegates registered for the Delegate community service project, which of course registration is closed for online. But I will make some calls tomorrow to the Democrats Work people, to see if we can figure something out. They’re the ones that also organized the CDA volunteer project, which involved working on an organic farm for an afternoon. But that’s another story.
