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O frabjous day! Calloo! Callay!
Nov. 5th, 2008 12:45 amI wonder if it is supposedly some form of illegal for me to have actually been in my voting precinct this morning after voting by absentee ballot? Everything else related to voting seems to be illegal. Tee hee.
After John McCain's concession speech, the group of people I was watching the election with made a toast "to John McCain, for being a better man than Hillary Clinton." I didn't actually hear Clinton's speech when she lost the nomination, but from what I've heard about it, and what other "Congratulations to the person I've spent the last x amount of time trying to convince everyone I'm better than" speeches, it was very classy. Much classier than he's been for, like, the entire campaign. Maybe this is a sign that now that he is not running for President anymore, he will go back to being actually kind of cool like he used to be.
Obama's speech is going to end up in textbooks in twenty years or so. Or at least I hope it does. He seems to be channeling the MLK Jr thing and the JFK thing, and I am praying that those two assassinations cancel each other out and Obama lives to be really wicked old.
We tried to march on the President's house and get him to cancel classes the next day, but apparently they were anticipating this and there were cops there telling everyone to just go home. But it was worth a shot, since apparently it worked when the Red Sox won the World Series a couple years ago. (Presidency vastly more important than Red Sox, in my opinion, but don't tell the Massholes I said that.)
Totally unrelated to the election: since I cannot do judo due to my sinus infection (apparently contact sports will make my spleen explode or something), and since Shaylyn and I were the only dorks to show up to karate tonight, we spent it practicing difficult things and having proper attention paid to the details, which is a nice change considering how often people show up after not having been there for three weeks and making us just go over the same easy shit week after week. We are also consolidating the roster so that people that don't show up consistently are no longer allowed to show up at all. Yay for learning things!
Whee, it's a good day to be an American. :) And I don't say that very often. I am especially pleased at the number of non-Americans I know through teh magickal Intarwebs that seem so happy about this too. So I guess it's just a good day.
After John McCain's concession speech, the group of people I was watching the election with made a toast "to John McCain, for being a better man than Hillary Clinton." I didn't actually hear Clinton's speech when she lost the nomination, but from what I've heard about it, and what other "Congratulations to the person I've spent the last x amount of time trying to convince everyone I'm better than" speeches, it was very classy. Much classier than he's been for, like, the entire campaign. Maybe this is a sign that now that he is not running for President anymore, he will go back to being actually kind of cool like he used to be.
Obama's speech is going to end up in textbooks in twenty years or so. Or at least I hope it does. He seems to be channeling the MLK Jr thing and the JFK thing, and I am praying that those two assassinations cancel each other out and Obama lives to be really wicked old.
We tried to march on the President's house and get him to cancel classes the next day, but apparently they were anticipating this and there were cops there telling everyone to just go home. But it was worth a shot, since apparently it worked when the Red Sox won the World Series a couple years ago. (Presidency vastly more important than Red Sox, in my opinion, but don't tell the Massholes I said that.)
Totally unrelated to the election: since I cannot do judo due to my sinus infection (apparently contact sports will make my spleen explode or something), and since Shaylyn and I were the only dorks to show up to karate tonight, we spent it practicing difficult things and having proper attention paid to the details, which is a nice change considering how often people show up after not having been there for three weeks and making us just go over the same easy shit week after week. We are also consolidating the roster so that people that don't show up consistently are no longer allowed to show up at all. Yay for learning things!
Whee, it's a good day to be an American. :) And I don't say that very often. I am especially pleased at the number of non-Americans I know through teh magickal Intarwebs that seem so happy about this too. So I guess it's just a good day.