Apparently we actually can. Huh.

I was planning to call in sick and sleep late because I was up for twenty hours yesterday, but it turns out that my body runs on electoral votes so here I am, refreshing the blogs of more sensible and currently-sleeping people. I'm still called-in-sick, though, because I want to give the people whose candidate didn't win time to get it out of their systems. And because I can. And because there were freaking birds chirping and the sun was shining this morning and I live in a blue country, and once the provisional ballots are in I might be in a blue state for the first time since Carter.

I know not everything was roses, but it's the first time there've been any roses in a long, long time, people. I was a sophomore in high school in 2000, for heaven's sakes. There's been neither peace nor prosperity nor any kind of trust in my fellow citizens for a while, and I am looking forward to the chance of seeing some of that.

ETA: Also: Bradley Effect my shiny white ass. Yay.