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[kittydesade]

active_apathy makes the coolest icons. Just saying.

Coda to The Angel of Thursday probably to come today while I'm at work, if everyone's too busy celebrating/mourning Obama's win to order anything. Plus there's the mail order sale coming up so everyone's probably waiting if they can till next week to order. Seriously, don't expect me to be around much next week. And I need to figure out a menu of things I can mostly pre-cook so all I have to do is lean against the kitchen counter and stare at the stove for a bit. Maybe spaghetti sauce. A lasagna. Something.

Arizona, Florida, I am going to stab about half of you in the eye. Seriously, what's up with that? California, I'm looking at you too.

That is probably the only thing about politics I'm going to say, except this: Best voter turnout since 1908. That is more than a little awesome. And you know what? My new friend who tried to vote but for one scheduling reason or another couldn't free up enough time to stand at the polls? You and everyone else who tried but couldn't make it get props too. Winning and losing aside, I think it's phenomenal that that many people had the hope and the belief that they could make one tiny difference for the better in our country. That they believed their voices were heard. I know people have been going on at great length lately about civic duty, responsibility as a citizen, blah blah blah, and I've been guilty of some of that too. But what gets me about the usual argument why people don't vote is the casual despair it seems to sound like, at least to me. Oh, what's the use, things aren't going to get better anyway. It's all very Marvin. But, this year? Lots, and lots, and lots of people said, you know what. Things are fucking well going to get better, and I'm going to make them that way. So, yay.

Um. Bleh. I'm awake. Mikey woke me up at 5.30 this morning. I don't want to be awake, but at least he let me go back to sleep for another hour. I got more words Nanoed last night, yay, and now I have to do a bit of research on medals awarded in combat for the last century and a half or so, no, probably about two centuries. Blargh. But that comes after Nano and, yes, there is a placeholder in my book that goes [stuff here.] Bite me. Actually that may come not so much after Nano but after I finish it and before Nano actually ends, so I figure, that's fair. I'm at 12.5k words right now, I'm wondering if I can actually finish the damn thing before the mail order sale. Probably not, but I can get damn close. Go me.

And at this point I'm just talking nonsense not to myself, so I'm going to go find a donut or something and attempt to become sane. Also, I need an icon of Edna Mode from The Incredibles that says "Fight! Win!" Where's my damn DVD.