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I'm listening to live streaming NPR and full of nostalgia - I can almost smell my Mom's cooking.

obligatory victory speech

Despite all the predictions, I didn't really believe that it could happen. It's been a long eight years. It's been a long time since America could be proud of its president or really, any part of its government at all. After the second election was stolen four years ago, I gave up on hoping for better.

Being shocked last night (this morning) felt really, really good. And then I fell asleep.

When I woke up, Perry was leaning against the Crazy and she was snuggled into a tiny ball between his spine and the backs of my knees.

And Proposition 8 had passed.

I didn't expect that either: I was disgusted by the Yes-for-8 people but I thought, you know, this is California, and look how far we've come, so... but no.

Hey, America, if it makes you feel better, it's illegal for gays to adopt in Finland, too.

I didn't cry. I never cry, except when dogs die.

And also, rock the fuck on, nasal American accents. Last night, on live streaming NPR, I listened to an exit poll interview with a 50-year-old white male who'd been Republican his entire life and was going Democrat for the first time for Obama. He voted Democratic for the senate, too, because, he said, they were asking Obama for change and they should give him the tools to create it: a Democratic Congress.

That was awesome.

first of all: very catchy

I um... want some Stewart/Colbert. Unfortunately, that's what perhael and I like to call a faildom. That's because there's actually no fic at all in it that both doesn't suck and is longer than a couple of hundred words. So my chances don't look good. :|

ncis, s3 (to the end)

I know, okay, that marines really do wear their hair like that, but did Mark Harmon really have to shave his head? On screen? That was horrific! wax_jism and I were both shouting, cringing and covering our eyes! And then they kept showing his head on camera! NOOOOOOOOOOOO!

And another thing! The flashback narrative, or FlashBackative as we call it as of now! That little black toupee on his head. LOLLLLLLLLLLL.

His bad hair choices should have their own credits.

election reaction again: post rec

cleolinda's reaction post puts into words some of what I was feeling:

And then I was reading y'all's reactions, and I found myself unable to feel any of the same joy or excitement or jubilation. I think I was shocked, mostly. My eyes were a little wet. And the thing is, I don't think I had realized until that moment how much I had lost over the last eight years, until the moment that I got it back, and that loss was suddenly what I was aware of. I realized right then that I had lost faith in pretty much anything this country stands for.

Except for the part where she said she would've voted Republican in 2000 if McCain had the ticket, because Alabama native or not that's clearly someone inhabiting another reality than I inhabit. Clarification: a million times "hell no". I would've voted Democrat even if the candidate had been Ross Perot (D) (LOL) against Colin Powell (R), not that I could vote yet in 2000. Okay, that was the silliest thing I could think of to say and now I'm wondering if I actually would have, because Perot's crazy and reminds me of my crazy maternal granddad and I actually respect Powell, so... well, not that Perot would ever have run Democrat anyway. But, hell, I'd have voted for... for... well, for Kerry. For - I can't think of any Democratic political figures I respect less than Kerry. Hell, for... for Alabama senator Shelby, who switched party affiliations to Republican in office while I was a child and earned my undying loathing, if he had by some insane chance switched back.

BUT YOU SHOULD STILL READ THE POST.

i'm having crazy thoughts like 'american flag bandanna for the dog'

God, this feeling is so surreal and strange and foreign - I actually feel proud to be American today! In spite of Proposition 8.

In other news? Cruella DeVille's shoes.