I spent an entire day writing.
As a result I have fifty pages of passable work where once (and by once I mean yesterday) I had a random collection of vague statements and a relatively cluttered and unnecessary list of dialogue.
I also got some stretching in. As of today I can almost touch my knees to the floor behind my ears lying with my head to the ground.
Living the dream...
...just living the dream.
I wonder, given the amount of MSNBC and CNN I didn't watch today and the subsequent increase in my overall productivity if this whole Barrack Obama thing was worth it.
The little news I did catch (the Daily Show) left me feeling pretty good about the world. There's something about the past few days in the way Jon Stewart doesn't look like he kind of wants to give up anymore. I don't even care if the jokes start falling flat (which I feel is entirely unfounded and really only a concern) watching Jon Stewart regain his childish glee is reward enough.
I'd like to add that while I've heard a few interesting rumors about a certain Alaska governor who apparently can't remember the name of the country the state she is governor of boarders, I am in no way bothered by this. It's the damnedest thing. Call it sadism or a prolonged euphoric high from the opiate that was Tuesday night, but Palin being stupid has become somehow not terrifying... I'd even say damnably endearing.
On a lighter note, I'd like to add, what the fuck? in reference to California and the whole pissing on what ought to have been (and I'm sure still will be) a monumental day for civil rights. From what I've seen (cable news was on while I ate a sandwich) black people whose turn-out apparently made an Obama presidency a reality, seem to be about as against gay rights as the reddest members of any given solid red state (ie: Pennsylvania, Virginia, or Indiana... heh... suck it conservatives), which isn't to suggest white people are blameless in this (I noticed the honkies were split almost evenly on the issue).
But, I don't know. What would politics be without a big ironic "fuck you" to people who've been given after years of being spoken to by politicians as if we were a nation populated entirely by functionally retarded four year-olds, a small amount of respect subsequently a reason to chance some hesitant reserved form of optimism?
To be fair, I don't recall a certain president elect Barrack Obama supporting in any way the notion of equal marriage rights for gays (and I'm still hoping it was all just a shameful ploy to get elected), meaning it's probably not neatly ironic like rain on one's no-rain-day, but damnit if it doesn't just scream America.
