Picking up from yesterday –
Even at the airport, I sat down, opened my laptop, and made calls until we boarded.
I flew to New York because at the end of the day, I wanted to go to the Javits Center and see her victory speech.
Just as I wanted to be in Philadelphia for her convention, I wanted to be in New York for her presidential nomination.
I had a layover in North Carolina. (I actually got to choose from two flights that were about the same price and time. But I specifically chose the one with the swing state layover, to see if being there would give me any kind of feeling at all…)
And the group I met at the airport bar where I got my vegetable tacos loved Hillary. I know that’s a ridiculously small sample size of 3 people. But those three people were so excited!
We’ve got this. We’ve obviously got this, right? We have to have this…
When I got on the plane, I had a really hard time connection to the wifi (Oh no!) As soon as I landed I tweeted that I’d been on a plane and asked for an update… And someone told me Florida was way too close. And I started catching up. And I started getting ever so slightly nervous. But, come on. We know she’s got this…
I jumped in a cab and went to my friend’s place in Harlem (as that’s pretty close to LGA) so I could put my stuff down and such…
I texted my friend who was at Javits, and not surprisingly it was packed. It didn’t seem like they were letting anybody else in. So, I decided I’d watch a few more returns in Harlem – wait until it gets close enough to her speech and see if we can sneak in…
And then it started to look more and more like a President Trump was possible…
(OH NO!)
And this is where I’ll sadly pick up tomorrow!