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at 6:19PM i should, by all rights, be out of work and drinking. aren’t most people out of work and drinking?

no?

i’m a lush?

… ok fine. fuck you.

but the big W again is our president, apparently this time with the popular vote at his back, which leads me to believe bad things about the american people. i used to say that i could see where the pro-bush contingent was coming from but on a day like today… well… i really can’t. i can’t believe that people are actually threatened by the idea of gay marriage, i can’t believe that people think they can dictate what other people do with their bodies and i just do not understand HOW IN GOD’S NAME 45% of the youth vote went republican. (or whatever figure my boss quoted me this morning. not that he is an authority on the situation. but i’m mad and i reserve the right to throw around inaccurate numbers until i feel better.)

and another thing: i am SO sick of hearing about “healing the country” and “coming together” and all that sweet-talking bullshit. I’m sicker of that than i was of hearing about the provisional ballots and Kerry’s plan to send another billion troops to Iraq by repealing Bush’s tax cuts to the rich, sicker even than i am of that smell in the hallway at work that leads me to believe that a rat has crawled into the wall and died. NPR must have used that phrase at least 5 times today while i was listening to the radio. It’s not like a member of my family has passed on, i just have to spend 4 more years under the control of a leader that i don’t agree with. and then a lifetime of the supreme court justives he appoints. so really, the pain will go on and on forever.

bite me, NPR, the country doesn’t need to be healed, the country needs a stiff drink. or at least, I do.

so cheers, everybody, i am going home to imbibe whiskey and wine until i pass out.

Hopefully tomorrow i can blog that this was all a dream. or maybe i will dream that i move to canada and then wake up there for real!!