 |
|
|
|
|
 |
 |
|
||
 |
 |
|
||
|
||||
 |
|
|||
|
||||
|
||||
Election NightNovember 04, 2008 7:45 p.m. EST Got Linguiça?Before I moved to Martha's Vineyard, I'd never heard of linguiça. I still remember going to Louis' for pizza with the high-school-student lighting tech of a theater production I was working on. "What's linguica?" I asked, reading the menu board and pronouncing the "c" like a "k." The kid looked at me in disbelief and said, "Linguiça," with a soft "c." Linguiça is a Portuguese sausage. I couldn't live without it. Having decided that even if the worst happens, I'll still want to eat, I am making a quiche. The cheese is very sharp cheddar, the sauté is onions, mushrooms, and linguiça, and I pestled a bunch of herbs in my mortar to throw into the custard. I just logged on to AlterNet to see what returns were in (not many), and what people were saying. There's ebullience, there's cautious optimism, there's gloom-and-doom certainty that Obama is in the pay of Wall Street. Gloom-and-doom is easy. Hope is hard. But hope is like linguiça: life is boring without it.
9:05 p.m. Open All Night!Springsteen is the soundtrack for the evening -- the Seeger Sessions, of course. Currently playing is Live in Dublin.
* * *
* * *
* * * Nothing like a few songs to remind you that we've been climbing Jacob's ladder for a long, long time. Got music?
9:30 p.m. Pharaoh's Army Got Drownded?Fox calls Ohio for Obama, NBC calls Pennsylvania for Obama -- Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, and New York for Obama; Rhode Island for Obama; Delaware, New Jersey, and Maryland for Obama . . . Yeah, McCain's got some states too: Wyoming, Kansas, North Dakota, South Carolina . . . Dixville Notch, New Hampshire, went for Obama. First time the place has gone for a Democrat since Hubert Humphrey.
5:45 a.m., November 5 Schrödinger's ElectionSo this morning I was lying awake as the skylight above my head just began to think of turning gray, working up the nerve to boot up Morgana V and find out what happened after I conked out. If I didn't know it, it hadn't happened, right? Or at least it hadn't happened yet. When it was light enough to distinguish Travvy's white face from his gray cap, I got up, turned on the computer, fed Trav, and went downstairs to brush my teeth and put my contact lens in. I came back up, sat down, loaded Outlook Express, downloaded e-mail, and went to the FEM-SF folder. The first new e-mail was from a list member in Québec. The subject line said "Yes, you can." The next subject line said "Yes, we did." It was from a list member in Vermont who is now a duly elected member of the Electoral College and looking forward to casting her vote for Obama-Biden on December 15. The cat is alive! Posted another USian: It's "one of those rare moments when we are better than we might have imagined ourselves to be." And from a subscriber in Australia: "Congratulations!"
|
|
|||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
 |
|
|||
 |
|
|||
Home - Writing - Editing - About Susanna - Bloggery - Articles - Poems - Contact Copyright ©
Susanna J. Sturgis. All rights reserved. |
||||