an auspicious day

i have the pleasure of working basically next door to the nbc building in burbank. normally this fact doesn't play much into my everyday life except for dodging the occasional tourist walking against traffic by my parking garage. today was different though because president obama was going to be on leno, meaning he was going to be a mere building away. while we didn't get to go to the taping, we did decide to do a little obama stalking and wait near the back entrance of nbc where guests usually depart from. we actually go there just in time to see his motorcade leaving.



he's in the second car, not the one closest to me. i actually saw him through the window of the car. we waved at him and he smiled and waved back. it was pretty awesome. there wasn't a huge group of people there. i got the feeling that most of the people were people from the surrounding neighborhood or people who worked nearby like us.



this is what we looked like right before he came.

something else also arrived for me today.



it's my new kindle! my friends got together and got me a big ol' gift card to amazon to put towards a kindle and it came today. i'd been curious about them for awhile but i started really wanting one a couple of months ago when i figured out that i could read while knitting. it's a great way to do some knitting and get my reading done. until now i'd either knit and watch tv/movies or not knit and just read. now i can do both. i haven't played with it too much yet but i look forward trying out a pattern in pdf on it. yay for a fun day!