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prairie_grass) wrote2008-11-05 02:06 pm
prairie_grass) wrote2008-11-05 02:06 pm
USA Elections!
I know, I know, you're all probably sick of it, but I don't care!
I'm planted in front of the T.V. watching the NZ coverage of the US election. Boring and super-exciting at the same time. At this point it's a guesstimate from CNN of Obama 81 to McCain 34. ABC is reporting that Obama has Pennsylvania. I've got my laptop out because I'm sure there are going to be long bouts of nothing happening and in theory I'm supposed to be using some of my holidays this week to write!
Oh, and I got all my essays in. Have to wait a few weeks for marks, but I'm about 90% sure I've passed both classes. Got my summer papers confirmed this morning. I'm trying to convince my work to give me minimal extra hours over the summer so I can make a serious hit at my WIPs. I also have some Spn/CWRPS fics I'm thinking about having a go at. Next year the original fics have got to become my top priority, so this summer I really desperately want to get Dry My Tears and Burn to Shine back into shape before I turn my attention elsewhere. Anyway, we'll see what happens.
Will check in later as the polls keep coming in! Woot woot! (If anyone's at all in question of where my loyalties lie, *snort* GO OBAMA, GO!)
Edit: 306 votes! WOOT!
I'm planted in front of the T.V. watching the NZ coverage of the US election. Boring and super-exciting at the same time. At this point it's a guesstimate from CNN of Obama 81 to McCain 34. ABC is reporting that Obama has Pennsylvania. I've got my laptop out because I'm sure there are going to be long bouts of nothing happening and in theory I'm supposed to be using some of my holidays this week to write!
Oh, and I got all my essays in. Have to wait a few weeks for marks, but I'm about 90% sure I've passed both classes. Got my summer papers confirmed this morning. I'm trying to convince my work to give me minimal extra hours over the summer so I can make a serious hit at my WIPs. I also have some Spn/CWRPS fics I'm thinking about having a go at. Next year the original fics have got to become my top priority, so this summer I really desperately want to get Dry My Tears and Burn to Shine back into shape before I turn my attention elsewhere. Anyway, we'll see what happens.
Will check in later as the polls keep coming in! Woot woot! (If anyone's at all in question of where my loyalties lie, *snort* GO OBAMA, GO!)
Edit: 306 votes! WOOT!
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and YAY!
it turns out you got to watch more of the coverage then I did, I was teaching until an hour after Obama's speech.
I walked out of the class room to see a group of people on bikes riding across uni yelling "Obama" and my flatmates and I walked into town and along the way ran into a spontaneous party in the middle of the quad complete with sound system, a keg and joints to go around. When we got there we joined in a rousing rendition of our national anthem, I have never felt that elated singing it before!
and all I have to say is:
Oh Happy Day
now we just need to work on this stupid repeal of gay marriages in California
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Well, to be fair it was in the middle of the day here. I did feel a bit zoned out by 5:30. After having watched it for five hours straight. But hey, it was a freaking defining moment in history and I am GLAD. Later on they had a replay of the John Stewart show, and the sequence of events went, 'counting states, making some jokes, a guy ranting about something, Stewart interrupting to say, "Sorry, sorry, I just have to interrupt you for a second. ... Barak Obama is the next president of America."' and the audience just went INSANE. They didn't even try to say a thing for a good two minutes! I wish I could have seen the way people were feeling in your town, it must have been pretty epic. One of those moments in life where you're like, "I am not going to ever forget this"
I was quite deeply bummed out by the repeal in Cali. But, I kind of feel like that won't last long with at least four years of Obama in office. *crosses fingers*
Hey! Miss you! *hugs*