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So, it's Inauguration Day. The big one. The day Donald Trump becomes president of the United States. Below, I included a picture of a guy surfing with a dog, because if there's anything I'd like to be doing today, it would definitely be surfing with a dog. Unfortunately, I don't have a dog and I live in a landlocked country, so that's out. Luckily, however, the internet is full of funny ideas for how to get through Inauguration Day. No waves, no dog, no problem!
This is definitely a treat yo'self day, whether that means buying yourself a delicious and greasy lunch, turning off all forms of communication with the outside world, or getting on a surfboard with your four-legged friend (dreams). This could also be a day when you force yourself to think just a little bit harder about the country that you love and the world you live in, and a day you ask others to do the same. Or maybe this is a day you'll force yourself to watch the whole thing — with a glass of something potent in hand. Tomorrow, we fight. Today, we get through it. Preferably while surfing with the dog pictured below.
Without further ado, here are the best ideas that the internet has on how to spend the day.
Do A Little Light Reading
It's the dawn of a new age, but that doesn't mean you can't learn from the past. Plus, Trump and Putin seem to be besties, so maybe you'll get some good tips.
Toast European Unity With A Dirty Martini
Times Higher Education published a piece about what some academics will be doing on this fine January day, including a British professor at Georgetown University, Duncan Wu, who will be attending the inauguration. During the actual ceremony, he says, he'll unfurl a European Union flag when Trump is sworn in. After the ceremony, he says that his plans are to "adjourn to the Trump International Hotel (so-called), or the building that I call the Post Office, on Pennsylvania Avenue, where I will toast European unity with a Dirty Martini."
Stick it to the man, Professor Wu.
Make Some Themed Recipes
Cooking can be relaxing, so try out an Inauguration Day recipe or two. If you don't feel like playing with fire today, there are also some good inaugural cocktail recipes.
Literally Just Scream
Feeling pent up? A bit worried about what the next four years will bring? Wondering how the country possibly could have come to this? Angry at the people who brought this upon you? Sad to see Obama leave the Oval Office for the last time? Missing him and his family already? Have so many emotions and just don't know how to express them? Get it all out. Scream. Scream. Scream as loud as you can. And then keep screaming. Tire yourself out screaming. And then wake up tomorrow ready to fight.
The internet is a funny place, and there are surely even more funny ideas out there. Go looking for them! Or go out on your surfboard with your dog.
