The Morning After
I've been up since 6 a.m. This is freaking unnatural for me. (What makes it worse is that I never really got to sleep last night.)
No, it's not residual excitement from the election. I'm relieved, not thrilled. We got up early yesterday and voted. Hubby went off to work and I went back home, eventually falling asleep again midday. We imposed a no media coverage of the results zone on our house, and I think we were the better for it. I can't see as how suffering through the minute-by-minute scrutiny of every little change is beneficial.
As it was, when my husband went to bed, our local paper--now printed in Richmond so there's an earlier deadline--projected Obama as winning the election but Romney winning the state of Virginia. Well, Virginia eked on over into blue for the presidential race. (We still have two Democratic senators, too.)
So, anyway, I was not tossing and turning, fretting over the outcome of the election. I just Could Not Fall Asleep. Bah! Bah, bah, bah.
An interesting corollary is that I want to eat! (I've already had breakfast.) Usually, I am not that hungry in the morning, but today I'm ravenous. "Strange times, indeed."
No, it's not residual excitement from the election. I'm relieved, not thrilled. We got up early yesterday and voted. Hubby went off to work and I went back home, eventually falling asleep again midday. We imposed a no media coverage of the results zone on our house, and I think we were the better for it. I can't see as how suffering through the minute-by-minute scrutiny of every little change is beneficial.
As it was, when my husband went to bed, our local paper--now printed in Richmond so there's an earlier deadline--projected Obama as winning the election but Romney winning the state of Virginia. Well, Virginia eked on over into blue for the presidential race. (We still have two Democratic senators, too.)
So, anyway, I was not tossing and turning, fretting over the outcome of the election. I just Could Not Fall Asleep. Bah! Bah, bah, bah.
An interesting corollary is that I want to eat! (I've already had breakfast.) Usually, I am not that hungry in the morning, but today I'm ravenous. "Strange times, indeed."