OBAMA

TOTALLY WORTH DRIVING TO AUSTIN FOR THREE DAYS AND WAITING IN LINES OUTSIDE FOR (really ONLY) LIKE 6 HOURS (they gave us line vouchers for the tickets so the 1500 or so people lined up could go home instead of camping outside like we were all prepared to -- well, I had figured that I wasn't alive for the Star Wars lines, so heck, it's Obama ( Read more... )

So I spent the day before Inauguration Day (and the day before that, mostly) not online but plowing through ~700 pages of Middlemarch (which I think may be one of my favorite books, guys!), and I went to bed about three last night after finishing. I wore my brand new shiny pretty Election Day shirt, which finally arrived - Joey, Barry, please ( Read more... )

so I have spent so much time in the past few weeks reveling in the happiness that is barackobamaisyournewbicycle.com .

this is my new favorite post in the whole world.

I love love love how many Rahm icons there are in my notifications. ♥_♥ STILL CANNOT BELIEVE THAT HE IS REAL. (lksdfsd "It hasn't been easy for Rahm, though... As a young man, he had a serious accident. He was working at a deli, accident with a meat-slicing machine, he lost part of his middle finger. As a result of this, this rendered him ( Read more... )

It was Girls State that really made me realize how much I love this country. Everything she can be and her people, god, her people, and I may have spent the past 8 years growing more and more cynical and imagining every worst case scenario possible and edging away from this feeling, this glorious rising hope-- no more. I don't have to. I don't ( Read more... )

WE FUCKING DID IT
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I think we can, I think we can, I think we can.

Ahhh, you guys, I am just so gooshy tonight. HERE ARE SOME REASONS:

THIS CANDIDATE. He makes me melt. ♥ (I could have been more useful, but WHO NEEDS CHEMISTRY HOMEWORK WHEN YOU HAVE SLIDESHOWS LIKE THIS, ps even though it's the last thing here and has certain other candidates in it, THIS MIGHT BE MY FAVORITE ONE. All sides can agree: food ( Read more... )

OH MY GOD, YOU GUYS, LOOK AT MY ICON. IS THIS NOT THE GREATEST ICON YOU HAVE EVER SEEN, I ASK YOU. And it's just so perfect for him, I mean, WHAT OTHER CANDIDATE IS GONNA WAD YOU UP INTO HIS LIFE AND MAKE YOU A SHINING STAR ALL TOGETHER ( Read more... )