I got an email from a friend yesterday who detailed her inauguration-watching experience, much the same as mine: pride, joy, tears, relief. Then she said, "But that speech -- it was great and all, but it made me feel like I should start going to the gym every day." I had to laugh because I had such a similar reaction. I spent the early part of inauguration day in a local bar, watching with my neighbors; the afternoon just walking and walking through the city, seeing how it felt; the evening hanging with a friend whose neighborhood I'd found myself in; and then I came home and thought, I need to clean out the closets, and really get to work on this book, and maybe do some volunteer basketball coaching for some little kids' team...

You guys know what I mean? Anyone else feel like that?