After months of speculation, months of secrecy, months of rumors, and several weeks of hoping that something totally awesome was going to come from it, the truth comes out:

It seriously is Mayor Daley.

If I could put into words the disappointment I feel, I would be a Pulitzer-prize winning author and not a humble college blogger. How could this happen? How could President Bienen possibly get our hopes up by saying the speaker was "an extremely well-known person" and then eff up our days with this? Clearly, we have very different definitions of "extremely well-known." And mine is right.

I guess the only plus side? To the anonymous commenter telling me to "get my facts straight" when I reported this terrible rumor in March: looks like the joke's on you. Slash all of us. Unless maybe (hopefully?) it's still not true.

Leave your disheartened thoughts in the comments. Le sigh.