Sigh.
I feel that my personal sense of voter efficacy is low. Sigh. Oh well. I'm sorry Kerry had a less successful campaign, but I hope the half of the country that voted for Bush is happy. They'd better be. It's not the end of the world, though. I'm not moving to Canada. Also, it really sucks that all eleven states banned gay marriage. And that's all I'm going to say about that. Though, hey, on a local level I feel a high sense of voter efficacy, as all the local people I voted for won. So yay local politics?
We went and saw shellmidwife last night. We had Japanese food. I'd never been to a Japanese restaurant before; I assume mall Japanese food doesn't count. I tried some of Shell's salmon tempura (have never had tempura before) with avocado and lo, it was good. Mmm, salmon with avocado. It was very nice to see Shell again. That was fun.
Okay, so we sat around yelling at the election coverage a lot. My personal favorite moment was when the CNN news called Utah as Republican approximately 30 seconds after the polls there closed, with, um, 0% reporting. I guess they figured it was a foregone conclusion.
My other favorite moment, because I am six, was when I discovered that Idaho had a candidate for senator named Crapo, and furthermore, he had 99% of the vote. (However do you get that many votes when you're not running unopposed?) We were watching the coverage in Spanish by that point, because it was less depressing than the news in English (I should mention that I do not understand Spanish), so we decided to call him "Señor Crapo, senador de Idaho," which we find hilarious. Because we are six.
Also somewhere around here I observed, in what I thought was a brilliant and insightful statement, that "Spanish consonants sound different than English ones when [Jen is] speaking Spanish." Jen is still pointing and laughing. Hmph.
In other news, whee, there is a new House series on PBS (Regency House), and they're showing Frontier House tomorrow. Whee, people participating in historical recreation and whining. No, really, they're good shows.
We went and saw shellmidwife last night. We had Japanese food. I'd never been to a Japanese restaurant before; I assume mall Japanese food doesn't count. I tried some of Shell's salmon tempura (have never had tempura before) with avocado and lo, it was good. Mmm, salmon with avocado. It was very nice to see Shell again. That was fun.
Okay, so we sat around yelling at the election coverage a lot. My personal favorite moment was when the CNN news called Utah as Republican approximately 30 seconds after the polls there closed, with, um, 0% reporting. I guess they figured it was a foregone conclusion.
My other favorite moment, because I am six, was when I discovered that Idaho had a candidate for senator named Crapo, and furthermore, he had 99% of the vote. (However do you get that many votes when you're not running unopposed?) We were watching the coverage in Spanish by that point, because it was less depressing than the news in English (I should mention that I do not understand Spanish), so we decided to call him "Señor Crapo, senador de Idaho," which we find hilarious. Because we are six.
Also somewhere around here I observed, in what I thought was a brilliant and insightful statement, that "Spanish consonants sound different than English ones when [Jen is] speaking Spanish." Jen is still pointing and laughing. Hmph.
In other news, whee, there is a new House series on PBS (Regency House), and they're showing Frontier House tomorrow. Whee, people participating in historical recreation and whining. No, really, they're good shows.