Only a few more days!

I will be watching the swearing-in via French TV from the Language Center on campus, just before going to teach my first class!
Some reasons why I, like Al Giordano at The Field, am feeling a little "hopey."
Signs of change in policy regarding Latin America;
announced he will begin the process of closing the shameful Guantanamo Prison beginning Day One;
Obama's team has been preparing to reverse up to 200 of Bush's executive orders, including restrictions on abortion, drilling for oil on national land.