My First Hundred Days by Hillary Clinton

Day 1: Start up 2012 campaign.

Day 2: Direct staff to devise ways to detect, counter most likely 5 opponents.

Day 3: Direct shadow staff to do same.

Day 4: Staff meeting.

Day 5: Staff meeting; shadow staff meeting.

Day 6: Staff meeting (morning); speech.

Day 7: Individual meetings; individual meetings; individual meetings.

Day 8: Meet with outside advisor.

Day 9: Private summit: staff only.

Day 10: Private summit (cont'd).

Day 11: Return trip; miscellaneous; call to key shadow staff.

Day 12: Five-day photo op tour.

Day 13: Same.

Day 14: Same.

Day 15: Same; react to minor controversy.

Day 16: Same; continue reaction via proxy; return to D.C.

Day 17: Staff meeting.

Day 18: Private lunch, shadow staff only.

Day 19: Lunch with key congressional members; photo op.

Day 20: First foreign relations faux pas.

Day 21: First day of Containment from first foreign relations faux pas.

Day 22: First obfuscation attempt.

Day 23: Second, Third, Fourth.

Day 24: Opposition's first PR win and administration's first overreaction to it.

Day 25: Obfuscation; ember of story slowly burns out.

Day 26: Staff meeting.

Day 27: Shadow staff meeting; outside advisor meeting.

Day 28: Photo op.

Day 29: Legislation of a warm, sunny nature signed.

Day 30: Dinner in President's honor.

Day 31: Meet with key backers.

Day 32: Show human side.

Day 33: Private time; miscellaneous phone calls.

Day 34: First inkling at cabinet-elect shenanigans.

Day 35: First firewall erected to contain taint of corruption.

Day 36: First American tour; outside advisor meeting.

Day 37: Cabinet confirmation snafu (through day 65).

Day 38: Lesson learned, but digging in anyway.

Day 39: Photo op with key opposition leaders (previously planned).

Day 40: Question Time w/ the Press for Chief of Staff.

Day 41: Some minor controversy from weeks ago quietly resolved.

Day 42: New poll says same thing as old poll, but no one noticed old poll; insist rightly, for a change, "there's nothing new here."

Day 43: First foreign visit.

Day 44: Ink in private life spills.

Day 45: A day without bickering for shadow staff, key staff.

Day 46: Return home; full staff meeting.

Day 47: First staff shake-up; outside advisor reconfigures firewall.

Day 48: Talk abounds of "new life" in presidency.

Day 49: New poll disagrees.

Day 50: Another day, another legislative battle.

Day 51: Blamed for the weather.

Day 52: First promise delivered.

Day 53: Caveats in first promise delivered first noticed.

Day 54: "Lesson learned. Next lesson."

Day 53: More cuts; outside advisor leaves for new job.

Day 54: Musical chairs for key staff.

Day 55: Winning sports team or another visits in-between meetings of various shadow staff committees.

Day 56: Shadow staff meeting; key staff member leaks.

Day 57: Retribution.

Day 58: All smiles and sunshine.

Day 59: Speech in support of campaign promise made to photo-op-able demographic.

Day 60: That minor cabinet-elect corruption kerfuffle again; figure out exit strategy.

Day 61: Meet with new outside advisor.

Day 62: Talk of "renewed purpose" within administration; no poll to contradict; coin term and/or witty catchphrase during press conference.

Day 63: Grind someone's leak to make my bread.

Day 64: Meet with key legislative leaders.

Day 65: Meet with key foreign dignitaries.

Day 66: Contradict a week's worth of good will.

Day 67: Win a big one nonetheless.

Day 68: First minor contretemps involving something Bill said; deal with latest statistically questionable poll.

Day 69: Issue my own polls.

Day 70: A day when it's my proxies who are the busiest.

Day 71: Remember about that whole "100 Days" thing.

Day 72: Strategize.

Day 73: Meetings with key staff; shadow staff; old outside advisor; new outsider advisor; everyone I ever knew who owns a suit.

Day 74: Buzz rampant about big upcoming policy decision.

Day 75: D.C. left guessing.

Day 76: Only specifics of new policy still a mystery; margin of error trends up more than new poll, but I'll take it.

Day 77: Controversy regarding still unknown policy initiative.

Day 78: Photo op; old cabinet nominee makes choreographed and official what I've known for almost two weeks now; new cabinet nominee hinted at and already a shoe-in.

Day 79: Disaster in small town.

Day 80: Disaster in small town, day 2; rebut opposition on arcane legislative point, hint at forthcoming "big" policy initiative.

Day 81: Praised by The New York Times.

Day 82: Return to D.C.; key staff meeting.

Day 83: Fine tune new policy paper, drop hints in media; rally early support.

Day 84: Announce date and time of "big" policy/legislative announcement; hint at everything confirmed thus far with new policy.

Day 85: Make announcement; receive support; brush off derision; record a profit (Note: political scandal in second hundred days to proceed in the exact reverse order).

Day 86: Serendipitous good news from well off the radar.

Day 87: Accidentally create new factions in shadow staff.

Day 88: First photo op with staff who are press favorites.

Day 89: More policy talk; opposition feeling heat for the first time.

Day 90: Find a lot to like in this "Life on Top" role.

Day 91: Appoint new in-house Staff Coordination Director.

Day 92: New leak: less costly, same reaction, different fingerprints on the body (metaphorically, of course).

Day 93: Meet with outside advisor; private time.

Day 94: Press conference; take a half day off, for once.

Day 95: Small bump in road for new policy; new non-partisan polls mixed.

Day 96: Surprise with a zig when everyone thought I'd zag; polls already impressed.

Day 97: Questions about a two-year-old campaign gift.

Day 98: New policy, fast-tracked, passes.

Day 99: Push all-out blitz for that big, big signing ceremony for tomorrow; staff member DUI hushed for at least a couple more weeks.

Day 100: Signing ceremony, editorial plaudits, interviews, meeting with new cabinet nominee, a joke well received, and a "strongly dislike" low of 27% — and all before lunch. Consider two of five potential 2012 opponents successfully neutralized.