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First of all,
11256 / 50,000
(15.4%)
http://www.nanowrimo.org/NanowrimoUtils/ProgressReport/162726.html
I'm 5,404 words behind, and at this point I have 38,744 words to write in 20 days, which averages out to just under 2,000 words a day (the dork in me loves doing this elementary math).
A little political sidebar, here. After the OH YAYs circulating after the election, there was a smaller "So what?" contingent. Well, "so what?" folks, I know. I know we still have Bush for a President and have many Conservatives in office and, in fact, have quite a few Reps in Dems' clothing, so the sky did not fall and the seas did not boil and we won't be affecting changes in the next 30 seconds that will transform our day to day lives drastically forever and ever.
Maybe you weren't as worried about the state of our democracy as I was. I saw a man get "elected" in a SHAM of a democratic process, and I was furious and sad and outraged and frantic. And I waited. And waited. And then he got elected again. For real this time. He got the POPULAR vote. And I thought, my God ('cause God apparently had a lot to do with what went on at the polls), who are these people? Who are my countrymen and women? I felt betrayed that the nation I thought I knew had voted to "stay the course" and run things into the ground. And I felt betrayed by the apathy of potential voters who just couldn't be bothered to transform their political bitchery into political action.
So I AM happy. I'm happy that the people who have been unhappy with the direction of this government have elected (pun intended) to get off of their fatter than the worldwide average asses and pulled a lever. For some of us, it wasn't that different from a slot machine, to tell the sad truth. We pulled a lever hoping to get change. We were propelling into office untested, sometimes virtually unknown candidates because we were so disgusted with the status quo.
This isn't the most proactive, intelligent, informed, glorious testament to modern democracy. But the long in short of it is, I didn't know if we had even this in us. I didn't know if, despite the dissatisfaction we've been feeling as a people, we'd bother to try. And we did. We're trying. And we demanded that our government try. So YAY, I say. That's why I, for one, say yay.
11256 / 50,000
(15.4%)
http://www.nanowrimo.org/NanowrimoUtils/ProgressReport/162726.html
I'm 5,404 words behind, and at this point I have 38,744 words to write in 20 days, which averages out to just under 2,000 words a day (the dork in me loves doing this elementary math).
A little political sidebar, here. After the OH YAYs circulating after the election, there was a smaller "So what?" contingent. Well, "so what?" folks, I know. I know we still have Bush for a President and have many Conservatives in office and, in fact, have quite a few Reps in Dems' clothing, so the sky did not fall and the seas did not boil and we won't be affecting changes in the next 30 seconds that will transform our day to day lives drastically forever and ever.
Maybe you weren't as worried about the state of our democracy as I was. I saw a man get "elected" in a SHAM of a democratic process, and I was furious and sad and outraged and frantic. And I waited. And waited. And then he got elected again. For real this time. He got the POPULAR vote. And I thought, my God ('cause God apparently had a lot to do with what went on at the polls), who are these people? Who are my countrymen and women? I felt betrayed that the nation I thought I knew had voted to "stay the course" and run things into the ground. And I felt betrayed by the apathy of potential voters who just couldn't be bothered to transform their political bitchery into political action.
So I AM happy. I'm happy that the people who have been unhappy with the direction of this government have elected (pun intended) to get off of their fatter than the worldwide average asses and pulled a lever. For some of us, it wasn't that different from a slot machine, to tell the sad truth. We pulled a lever hoping to get change. We were propelling into office untested, sometimes virtually unknown candidates because we were so disgusted with the status quo.
This isn't the most proactive, intelligent, informed, glorious testament to modern democracy. But the long in short of it is, I didn't know if we had even this in us. I didn't know if, despite the dissatisfaction we've been feeling as a people, we'd bother to try. And we did. We're trying. And we demanded that our government try. So YAY, I say. That's why I, for one, say yay.