So much excitement at our house last night.   Eileen and I went to Hofstra University for the debate.

But unlike watching in your own home where you can gasp, shout, laugh, mock and throw things,  audience members at Hofstra have to behave themselves.  I decided it was a small price to pay for the privilege of being there.  More on this at joangarry.com

But I needed the opportunity to express some things.  I just had to.  This is where Scout came in.

She was in a school dorm drinking champagne and watching the debate with a group of students (who were, I might add, all registered to vote). I know about the champagne because I was so excited to be at the debate that I called her to brag.  She asked if she could call me back once she left the liquor store.

So we settled in for the debate in Hempstead and Scout poured herself a glass of champagne.  And we began texting.

A few excerpts:

J:   How does it appear to be going on tv?

S:   Well, if McCain were telling the truth at all, he’d be impressive.

S:   McCain is getting nasty.

S:  Obama wants him to look at him

J:  Can’t see. Tall man in front of me.  Probably Republican.

S:  The pin stripe suit is wrong.  Looks like a banker.  Bad to look like a banker.

J   Did he just say “Bresh of freth air?”

S  Obama was brilliant – McCain has nothing now that Ayers is behind him.

S:  McCain looks stoned.

J:  “Cockamamy?”  Did McCain just call one of Obama’s ideas “cockamamy?”

J:  My mother uses that word.   Oh right, she is old too.

S:   Right now, Joe is soooo embarrassed.

J:   Hey - thought Obama’s close was strong

S:  Oh, I’m like not even listening anymore…

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I need to explain this picture. Scout was in the midst of exam week. She called her mothers at midnight.  She needed help.  I bet you can see that in her pathetic little face.

She was working on a paper.  It was no doubt overdue.  It was for a class she is taking this semester.  Love and Eroticism in Western Culture.  IN108 at Emerson College  Really.  That’s the class she is taking.  Aren’t you jealous?

She called for help on a paper for this class.  At first I was kind of flattered and then she told me what the paper was about.  For the life of me, I can’t remember the whole topic but I know for sure that it involved sex, paranoia and masculinity.

I think we were just the right people to call.

Don’t we look helpful?  Actually Eileen looks helpful.  I look like I recently had a tragic haircut.  In fact, I’m really not sure why I chose to post this picture given how bad I look.

Oh yeah, I remember now.  I chose to post this because this particular picture because if offers insight into Scout.

Here she was, feeling low, pathetic, stressed.  She had broken out in some rash that sent her to the Emerson health center.  But never too pathetic to photograph herself looking pathetic and then taking a snapshot of her desktop and emailing it to me while we were still on our video chat.

I really don’t know how she does it.  It’s impressive.  As I’m sure the paper about sex, paranoia and masculinity was.

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