...And on a Personal Note...

...How are you? I'm...okay. Really I'm numb. Watching JK concede this afternoon was like a bad dream. It didn't seem real. Earlier today, a girl in my class told me that a little bit of her died today. Exactly. That's how it feels. My dad emailed me this afternoon with his thoughts:

From: Jay Price [mailto:mmri@********.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 4:39 PM
To: Andy Price
Subject: Re: T Minus One Day

Hello Andy:

I'm feeling more discouraged than I thought I would. I think we have another rough 4 years ahead of us. It seems like I vote on the losing side all of the time. It would be fun to be on the winning side once in a while. Kathie ended up voting pretty much like I did. I feel sorry for John Kerry. He spent the better part of two years on this, every single day.

Take care,

Dad

My dad gets it. I'm so proud to have a dad who is informed and aware and empathetic. If only there were a few more like him, if just in Ohio. :)

So what do we do now? That's been the question my friends have been asking. I think the only thing we CAN do is to continue to seek the truth, keep up with news and world events, write your legislators often, and try, try, try not to let another four years of the Bush revolution defeat us. I know that's not very stirring, but, hey, remember that I am still sort of in shock.

Some other thoughts:

• I had the saddest party last night. The champagne still sits in the fridge, waiting for something celebratory to occur.
• Tonight, I found myself reverting to the safety of my tween years, Adam and the Ants blasting on the stereo, as I drank some of the leftover beer from last night. It worked...for about as long as the CD lasted.
• I have now offically voted for more loser Presidential candidates than winners. Thank goodness for Bill Clinton. I have his two wins in one column and Michael Dukakis, Al Gore, and now John Kerry in the other.
• I find myself already looking ahead. Maybe John McCain can stem the conservative tide in '08. Will the neocons even let him? After all, look what they did to him in '00. And who is the Dem most likely to run? Edwards? Hillary? Obama? Can they all run? Maybe the Dems need a three-headed ticket. :)
• Even though Bush won the popular vote this time, I still think that the elctoral college needs to go. That is really all that should matter. Each vote should count. Simple, really. Why can't we get that done.
  

Okay, so buck up, little campers. We lost, and we lost big. Really big. So big that it makes me want to sell out, to stop killing babies and marrying dudes, and start praying and driving an SUV.

But I like being who I am. And there are still 55,554,114 people, 48%, who voted for Kerry. So I guess it could be worse. And my wonderful home state of Michigan went to Kerry...if just barely. And next time they won't have the opportunity to pick on gays and lesbians as a wedge issue to get out the vote. I think that helped. Because from the looks of it, America hates gays and lesbians. Sheesh. How lame. Hey, I wonder if divorces and spousal abuse will go down now that gay marriage is even less legal that it already was.

Alright, stay tuned, because the next Bush fuckup should happen in three...two...one...