Oh thank God today finally arrived

[sigma7]

My offhand prediction: Obama 353, Senate Dems 58, House Dems 247, California yes on 8. Just guessing.

The Raleigh News & Observer sent out a note cracking down on election-night pizza-horking: "Please be polite," wrote Susan Spring, the News & Observer's director of newsroom operations. "If you are working elections, you may have up to TWO slices" of pizza. A few hours later, executive editor John Drescher vetoed the limit, but added that "if Susan Spring chases you with a knife in her hand, you are on your own."

Eight years ago I went to sleep early, after Florida had been called (the first time) -- arrived at work at about 3 in the morning only to find the newsroom buzzing with people, asked the editor-in-chief what was going on, and she talked for five minutes before flittering away and I got absolutely zero information out of her. Hectic, confusing, strange -- but awesome in its own hideous way. Tonight promises to be less so, though some of the lines y'all are reporting from the polls might be the story of the night.

Okay, enough electoral trauma. Fast-forward to tomorrow. No more polarization, no more invective, no more garrulous rhetoric. Back to work.

Comments

[jeditigger.livejournal.com]

353 is the number I've heard tossed around a good bit. I think I guessed 358, but I don't remember where the extra five came from.

Invective and garrulous in the same sentence is sexy. Just saying.

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

I think that's the first time I've ever used "garrulous," actually. And believe me, considering the day I'm having and the migraine I'm sporting, I'm the antisexy at the moment. (And getting zero progress in NaNo in the last 24 hours? Dead unsexy.)

But I have a hammer, and that hammer shall suffice.

[jeditigger.livejournal.com]

Blah, migraine. And blah zero progress. I did 500 words or something like that. :/

Hope you feel better soon.

[jateke.livejournal.com]

Bite your tongue, mister, Californians are going to do the right thing!

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

I'd like nothing more to be wrong on that score, but the GOTV movement seems like it's going to be the deciding factor, and the yes-vote has a solid infrastructure (tax-free, no less) that I don't see the opposition being able to counter. Fingers crossed, though.

[jateke.livejournal.com]

I wish I had any hard facts to argue with you at all, but all I've really got is a hippy-dippy feeling, born of... uh... talking to a whole bunch of people from the Bay Area. Dammit.

[daethkow.livejournal.com]

Fast-forward to tomorrow. No more polarization, no more invective, no more garrulous rhetoric. Back to work.

I wish I could believe that.

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

Well, less. Significantly less. I'd settle for a fraction of a percent after the last few months.

[rewil.livejournal.com]

We had pizza tonight! AND Girl Scout cookies during the day! And pumpkin or pecan pie for afters! AND I didn't leave for lunch because Jonathan got the idea for us to have 3 interview videos per precinct in the county and there are 67 precincts and that was kind of over-ambitious.

So by the time the pizza got here I was pretty sick of sugar.

Still.

Tir'd, but good day. My "I voted" sticker's on my Stylebook and all is well.