Oh, that too

I neglected to mention in my last post, due to a Weird Al-induced haze, that I met Georgia's president Mikhail "Misha Dawg" Saakashvili on Friday. I had two other friends there, and we got let into this stadium opening early, and then Misha showed up with an entourage of reporters and such. At first, he noticed us and looked like he wanted to say hi, but he was swept away to the next photo op by reporters. Not to be outdone, me and my fellow political groupies stood in his path again for when he came back, and that time he saw us and shook our hands and said "Nice to meet you" in English (he studied at Columbia U in NYC for a bunch of years). I was euphoric. In hindsight, perhaps we should have used his title when shouting for his attention instead of shouting "Hello Saakashvili!" Can you picture someone shouting "Hello Bush!" Kind of rude. But I guess it got the job done. AWESOME.