he won! he won!

i guess he wasn’t climbing into bed. and neither was mccain, for that matter.

obama’s got penn state! hooray! but my heart is still in my mouth, and i have to take gulps of strong coffee to stay focused on my work. i wonder how they (the candidates) are feeling. but then again, people with weak hearts should not run for president, so i guess they are climbing into bed right now with impressive calm and aplomb.

i read through what i wrote last night and cringed inwardly, as always. i should learn to stop writing at night. one of my professors in university used to talk about how she never sent out any emails at night, because something about the night air (or did she say it was the moon? i don’t remember) made her more irrational. she would draft her mails and check them over the next morning before sending them out, just to make sure that she did not write anything embarrassing. i used to think that was utter bull (and coming from a professor! you would think she would have had a more scientific explanation for it. to be sure, she confided this to us when she was half-drunk… but i think she was deadly serious anyhow). still, i am beginning to see her point. i much prefer the (comparatively) logical and rational creature that i am by day. i cannot allow myself to slip out of control – even more, i cannot allow others to see me that way.

but i am all agog and edgy today. i follow the news with bated breath, cheering when obama clinches a state, jumping when he fails to. this may be the first time i have actually followed an american election. i am not sure why. perhaps it is all the ridicule of the mccain and palin camp that has me both amused and sorry for them (yet the truth is the truth). or the thick air of campaigns and elections hovering over new york when we visited. or the financial crisis. or simply a wish to see some change come to a country that could (and has) make or break the rest of the world.

on a separate note…

i can’t believe we are into november!