I’ve seen the schedule for various speakers tonight, and I’m not up for it. It’s not that I don’t agree with some of them; it’s that I’m old and go to bed earlier than when the top tier people are scheduled to speak. For example, Barack Obama is set to speak at 10 PM, which is when I usually retire.
And this is after Michelle Obama, Senator Schumer, Doug Emhof, and others have already taken the podium.
What to do?
I’m a writer; I wrote for a living. (Yes, I had a day job, but I wrote because writing is like breathing to me. Vital.) So I rely on the written word. Most of the speakers’ speeches are recorded somewhere, and I can read them without the applause and the delays that are often attached to convention speeches. Which means I can read them in a neutral manner without the hue and cry of the crowd.
As I write, it’s almost 10 PM; so I could catch Obama’s presentation firsthand. But I won’t. It’s not that I value sleep over political knowledge; it’s that I prefer learning something about political knowledge earlier in the day.
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