He's In!!

Humina humina humina. Everything I voted for yesterday passed...decriminalizing small amounts of marijuana, banning dog racing, the awesome new president, all of it! I still can't believe it. I woke up from nightmares twice last night, both times in a sweat, breaking out of dreaming that McCain won. The second time I was hearing voices both from abroad and from the African-Americans here around me: "How rascist are Americans that they won't elect the obviously phenomenal choice?" "No, no, no!" I said, tossing and turning until I woke up, convinced that it was true even as my dream self tried to explain that Americans are better than that. Today I feel like I have a right to call myself an American again; I care so much about America, it's just that I hate some of the things we've been doing these past eight years. It was 4:30 am and I checked the Internet to see if my nightmares were real. No, no, not at all. It was just a night of bad dreams. With most states called, it was 338 to 158. I got teary with gratitude and tried to fall back asleep, to no avail. The baby began to stretch inside me, pushing out feet on one side, arms on the other.

Today I spent some quality time trying to print out the homepage of the NYTimes for my baby book. I can add "elected African-American president" in the list of fab things the baby has done in utero (camped on Cape Cod, glider ride, peach-picking). Now I'm tired, but perky from buying beauty products online, my new vice. Aaaah, it's a new day in America.