A Closed Event . Music to my ears. I'd just get there a little early and find a way to open it up. The foyer to the library was blocked by two tables, one labeled Guest and one labeled Press. Normally, my instincts would be to push my luck and pretend I was Press, but since it didn't occur to me to prepare some personal credentials beforehand, I decided that I'd have to be a settle with being a Guest.
Guerilla tactics are more fun without forged papers, anyway.
I thought to myself that this was an odd question, considering we were standing at the Guest Table. So there we waited, watching as a dozen or so middle school students were led through security, probably to engage Gates at the computer terminals in some kind of warm and fuzzy Photo Op. But after a while, Pete and I started to question whether this plan of ours was going to work. I then saw Phil Shapiro of CTCNet DC at the back of the main lobby, standing in rows of seats behind the cameras and flood lights. He motioned to us that we should go sit Back There - apparently, these were the nosebleed seats, open to the public for our viewing pleasure.