"Stephen, you're such a dork." - Maggie

Actually Maggie, according to this Venn diagram, I believe I would be classified as a nerd. If I work on my social aptitude, though, I could one day be upgraded to geek.



















Finally a useful chart for us all to rely on.

On a completely different topic, I covered the President's visit to Iowa City on Thursday, an exhausting experience that I hope I will one day soon look back at as worth it. I haven't seen my story posted online yet, but I did take a few photos.


























































Unfortunately, because of my press credentials, I had to sit in the bleachers on the side where I was directly blocked by the President's teleprompter. This led to most of my good shots (such as the one above) being of him reading said prompter. Here's looking at you, kid.