Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah! Here in my British School in Thailand, we've all been following the election in the breaks between teaching, and saying "It's at 207 now! C'mon, Obama!" etc to each other as we bump into one another in the corridor. And the first thing I learned as I hurried in from grabbing spring rolls across the road for lunch? "President Obama, baby!"
iow, the rest of the world is chuffed to bits too. OMG,
The Guardian's
front page just slayed me, with all the photos. That was back when I was nipping online for the minute-by-minute updates. (And it cracked me up that they were carefully trying to be all balanced and not go "C'mon, Obama!!!"...and yet their photo montage definitely was weighted towards Obama, really, with 86 year old black ladies going off to vote and being quoted as thinking they'd never have the chance to vote for a black president in their lifetime, etc etc.)
YAY! GO AMERICA! GO GO GO!
Hello Fay, you wee cheeky thing. Fancy a snifter?
checks clock
Ah, what the hell, the kids are off to swimming. I'll join you in a cheeky little beverage, my lovely.
Time for some schnockerring!
That word looks germanic, doesn't it?
Anyway, cheers to you! Hope to see you in Seattle next year in a kinder, saner U.S.A.
I'm enjoying the expat Brit gloatiness. REALLY enjoying it.
Insh'allah! I'm certainly crossing fingers and toes for that too - it seems appropriate, since so far it's been every third year I've made it over.
Man, busy busy busy right now! I'm finishing writing reports, I'm doing reading assessments (man, my kids are GREAT little readers! They've really made fabulous progress!) until the cows come home, and tonight is the opening night of my play,
Deathtrap.
(Well, okay - the Student Preview.)
Up bottoms!
I'm enjoying the expat Brit gloatiness. REALLY enjoying it.
It is, in a word, adorable.
My head is buzzing. I want to make out with EVERYONE.
That's okay with everyone, isn't it?
After 8 FREAKIN YEARS of W? Yeah, I'm more nervous.
College kid who was working with me this afternoon asked me who I thought was going to win. I said, "I don't want to jinx it. But I can tell you whose sign I have in my front yard."
I just stuck my "I Voted" sticker on my computer and used a Sharpie to add "Obama 08" to it.
My head is buzzing. I want to make out with EVERYONE.
That's okay with everyone, isn't it?
Oh yes, line starts here. No pushing, Bitches.
