2nd night of the DNC.

Last night I went to the student bar to watch the 2nd night of the DNC:

1) My one hippie friend from Michigan joined me and someone else I bumped into at the bar joined me as well, and then someone else popped over from watching the football game, like around 7:30pm CST.

When the old gruff (white) bartender turned on coverage for us, he had said that they might need to turn it on to football, if the front room filled up.

At 9pm CST, the one quiet (dickish) (white) bartender came in to the back room bar to open it up, and he plugged in his iPod and turned it on very loud, to where it drowned out the coverage (though we could still read close-captioning).

My friends elected me to ask him to turn it down, and when I asked, he said that he was losing money by having us in there - but he didn't ask us to leave, and he turned down his music just a bit, though we still couldn't hear coverage.

"You remember the Indiana primary four years ago?", he asked me, which I only vaguely did...

(I think I had asked him to watch it, but then they turned music up and there was no closed captioning, and he and the other bartender were bitches.)

After like another half hour, he said the central TV in the front bar was on for us, and he turned on football, which he began watching.

During the middle of all that, I took my $1 tip away, since I'm not going to thank someone for being a total cockrag to me or pretend like I don't notice.

Later, right before I left, he came up to the front bar and approached me and said that he would probably make $15 for being in there all night.

2) During the Clinton speech, besides me and my one hippie friend, an old guy and a table of four younger masters students from my division were watching, as well as a couple younger (black) women who were strolling by.

One kept her boyfriend waiting, since she was just riveted by reading the closed captioning of the speech...  She especially loved Clinton's "Arithmetic" comment (in response to how he knows that the GOP budget is awful).

"That goddamn Bill Clinton," she kept saying, smiling and shaking her head.  "That's my new word for the week, 'Arithmetic!'", and she laughed.

3) Everyone I know who saw a bit of any of the speeches was just totally hyped up for Obama...  I particularly loved the speeches by former employees of companies taken over by Bain Capital.  They lived their whole lives probably wanting to give a speech like that, and they finally did.