I had a few loyal readers email and ask today if Casey made it out of D.C. okay.  Yup!  She is back at school safe and sound.  They had to take refuge at a post office when Union Square closed down, but she made it out.

(Casey helped us blog the ceremonies yesterday as she texted me live from D.C.)

Here she poses with a cheesy Obama t-shirt.

Incidentally, I took Casey to Washington D.C. when she was a sophomore for a high school journalism convention with 24 other teenagers several years ago.  If I remember right, she was well-behaved.  Unlike the following year when we were in Atlanta for another convention and she stuck her head through two rungs in the railing on the balcony of her hotel room.  I think she must have been stuck there for several minutes, about 13 floors up, squawking at all below.  I think it was fellow classmate Yarrow who lubed her head up with hotel conditioner to slide it back out.  (Guess her neck swelled once she got it thru there.)

I just wanted to have this story out here for those who are reviewing her application to Yale graduate school this year.  

Love ya, Casey!  Glad you are home safe. 

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