What a Week!

My, it's been a while since I typed in this thing...

Well, this was one historic week. Tuesday night, our first Black president, Barack Obama, was elected.

While I am a politics junkie, and love keeping track of polls and stuff in elections, this election drained me. It dragged on for two years, and by October, I was just itching for it to be over. After long days of waiting, Tuesday, November 4th, Election Day, came. By then, I was no longer running on fumes, I was just plain coasting. I pretty much drifted through the day and then got home, still coasting, and glued myself to CNN and MSNBC for election returns. I was praying and had my fingers crossed. At about 9 or 10 PM (can't remember the exact time), the breaking news came on: Barack Obama Elected President!

My word, it was a change. After days of running on fumes, being listless and tired, I became like a recharged battery. I jumped up from my chair and danced and shouted (so did my grandmother); my friend Josh, whom I was in voice chat with, heard it all. I proceeded to run outside and dance along the street, and go to my great-aunt's house across the street to do a dance in her living room.

A few minutes of that redrained my energy and I returned to my chair here, continuing to watch TV for a little while more to watch reactions on TV.

This election not only showed that the American people were ready for a change from the last eight years of disastrous policies courtesy of Bush and Congressional Republicans (as opposed to more of the McSame), but also made history--only a few decades separated from the era of separate but equal, a Black president was elected--not just by an eked-out majority, but by a landslide. He captured all the Kerry states, but also added Ohio, Florida, North Carolina, Nevada, Colorado, New Mexico, Indiana (!), Virginia (!), and Iowa, all Bush states in '04 and some (like Indiana) formerly blood red states.

Read more about Election 2008 at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United States presidential election, 2008

I spent Wednesday happy and on Cloud 9, and even gathered a couple newspapers with the headline just to keep them for memories.

Soon, though, my cruddy life brought me back down again, and now I am more depressed than ever...