I'm still consuming lots of Halloween candy. Halloween was fun; I made a pretty good Dorothy if I say so myself, and Nathan was an excellent scarecrow. He had a lot of fun saying trick or treat, and he got a ton of candy (some of which I took back to school with me).
I'm so nervous about the election. I voted Saturday! I love voting. In 2004 my 18th birthday was four days before the election, so I was able to vote, and I was thrilled. I'm just a huge dork about politics. I won't be able to sleep tomorrow night. I know I'll be staying up watching the results come in, and will either be celebrating or sulking miserably. I'm feeling positive though. The only downside to the election being on a Tuesday is that I have a nine o'clock class on Wednesday morning, and I don't know how I'll drag my ass out of bed for it.
Some of my relatives are big McCain supporters, and is it wrong to hope that that I'll be able to rub Obama's victory in their faces? Probably. But I would love to have that opportunity. Okay, I probably won't say anything to their faces. But I will be thinking it.
This whole event feels like Christmas Eve to me. I can never sleep well on Christmas Eve because I'm so excited about the next day--giving presents, receiving them, spending time with family. My brain just can't shut down. That's what I feel now, too--an exciting buzz, because even if Obama doesn't win, we will still have a new president. I was 14 when Bush was elected in 2000. For my formative years he was president (I'm not counting Clinton in my formative years because I was completely unaware of politics then, and didn't really start forming opinions on important matters until I hit high school). But now someone else is going to fill that spot. And no matter what happens tomorrow, I know that I can look back on this election and know that I had a part in it. It's history in the making--not just American history, but my history, too.
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