Today? I’m an anxious, emotional ball of nerves. Please, America, let’s get things right this time. I’m sitting here at work trying to get stuff done, but I just keep refreshing metafilter and 538 over and over and over and the littlest things keep making me all teary-eyed. I’m so not used to not having my cynicism and sarcasm and apathy to fall back on. I can’t just roll my eyes and shrug my shoulders because I want this so bad. And even though it’s looking pretty likely that Obama will win, I’m not going to be able to exhale until it’s officially called…and I don’t just want Obama to win. I want a landslide. I want him to bury McCain and Palin (especially Palin! Ugh, what a completely horrid human being she is!).
(Of course, even with an Obama win, there are stupid things like Prop 8 to stress over. It makes me feel sick that something so ugly and mean-spirited is even being considered, that some people think their squishy, poorly reasoned, inconsistent morals need to somehow be constitutional law. Denying someone the simple right to marry whomever they love just because you happen to think it’s kinda icky * is the most absurd, hateful position I can imagine. Stop being insane, people! )
Today feels like history, but I need this day to be over. I do not like how vulnerable hope makes me feel!
*Yeah, I may be oversimplifying the issue a bit, but really. There are no arguments for Prop 8 that make any sense. If you really believe children need a married mom and dad to be okay, then, oh, I don’t know, why don’t you try forcing mandatory birth control on everyone until they have a marriage certificate and then make divorce illegal? That would be completely insane, but more logically consistent at least.
