Photo: Callie Shell for Time

Barack and Michelle Obama eating breakfast in a diner in Pittsburgh on the morning of the Pennsylvania primary.

I find this picture very funny, and also very scary.

It’s funny to imagine the other customers in that diner on that morning — did they try to carry on eating as if they are accustomed to look over their morning paper to find the world’s media tucking into the bacon, or did they openly reveal their excitement that a piece of political history was eating pancakes just a few feet away? Or perhaps they were too busy trying to conceal their intense annoyance that the cameras weren’t pointed at them. Secretly, I think we’re all just a little bit jealous of Obama.

It’s terrifying to try and think yourself into his place: every moment of the next four (or eight, hopefully) years will be like this. Instead of faces around him, there will be the unforgiving glint of a thousand lenses.

Only 7 days to go.