--The First Family

Holy freaking cannoli.

No, I didn't get to sleep. I tried to a couple of times, but couldn't manage it. It's now 5:30 in the morning. Bush has been declared president by the networks, then put back into limbo. It's been utterly insane all night. And I wouldn't have missed it for the world.

And I am so screwed today. Not only do I have class early this afternoon -- I could deal with that, I think -- but I have a wedding to attend this evening. And-- oh, shreck, my art homework.

Okay, never mind the art homework. No time for it in any scenario. But how am I going to be up for the wedding?

Still, what a night.

I am loving every minute of this election. This is the best thing I've witnessed since the Color War results got overturned in camp this past summer. Probably even better. I actually wrote about the Hayes/Tilden election in the camp paper that week, and it's just fascinating that the same sort of thing may happen again. No matter who actually wins in the end, this is just so cool.

I'm really not getting some of the entries I've been reading lately... look, not all Bush voters are idiots, and they don't hate you, even if they don't happen to hold your point of view. There were valid reasons to vote for him, from a character standpoint, from an issues standpoint, and from a party politics standpoint. You might not agree with those reasons, but that doesn't make them stupid, hateful, or evil. If it turns out that he won, the country will not go down in flames. In short, chill.

Me, I could live with either outcome. From a lesser-of-the-two-evils standpoint, I preferred Gore; from a larger-picture standpoint, I dearly wanted the Democratic Party to lose this one. No matter what happens, I win one battle and lose the other. Short-term, I'd rather Gore won, but I really think we'll be better off if he didn't.

But now I'm going over old ground, unless I only wrote about this in the school paper and not here. I forget.

Either way, man, am I enjoying this.