My darling college friend Alexander Marquardt is coming to visit me tomorrow!!  yay! (The above I took at CNN’s NY headquarters last February)

Alexander’s been a CNN political reporter for the past 10 months, covering the Presidential campaign all across the country (before that he was an anchor for Channel One).  We try to see each other whenever we’re in the same city - which is not often enough, given his crazy schedule (every week a different campaign bus, or so it seemed!)

I’m trying to get him to go to the Inaugural ball, but he may already be off to the Middle East by then.  He’s absolutely going to be the next Wolf Blitzer.