Still not thinking about election results.

My alarm did not go off this morning (because i did not set it, but let's not focus on how this is my fault, okay?) so I didn't wake up until 20 minutes before I was supposed to be here. And I'm not even well-rested, which is a trade-off I would accept.

I think the only position where my candidate won was county tax collector. Oh well, at least I'll like the person I'm handing my money over to so it can be mismanaged by the state legislature.

We elected an absolute snake that's been hungering for the governor's office for decades, a senator who consistently votes against measures that benefit students and the working class, and violated separation of powers by giving the state legislature veto power over rules changes in executive branch agencies.

I feel like the only reason the victory speeches didn't include "Bow down before your Dark Lord!" was fear that it might be mistaken as an endorsement of Obama.

My bedside clock (not the one I use for an alarm) said it was 10AM this morning when I woke up from trying to sleep away my cold. It wasn't until I got downstairs that I realized it was still on DST, and it was only 9AM. Which is fine, but now I'm convinced that it's an hour later than it really is, and I think it's going to be that way for the rest of the day.

As far as the elections go, I pretty much hated everyone yesterday, so I still hate everyone today.

there is no way I could ever, EVER feel as bad as I did after the 2004 election

Yep. THAT was a massive disappointment. This is just the regular midterm pendulum swing.

Every political columnist or podcaster I follow has been saying for weeks that the 2016 map looks terrible for the GOP, so I hope they enjoy their extra 2 years of legislative gridlock because Hillary is going to eat them for lunch in the next round.

Looks like California pretty much went my way, even half the propositions went the way I voted (although I am still not sure I voted correctly on all of them, so I guess I am okay with that). I am unaccountably annoyed that the one casino measure didn't pass just because the one news story I heard about it convinced me it has such a narrow scope and is the end of such a long process already that it really ought to have been rubber stamped. But whatever, doesn't actually affect my life in any way.

I just saw a map of New York State by county, and now I know that I am not mistaken that even though NY is a Democratic state, in Upstate I am surrounded by Republicans. And everyone is MAD.

I'm having lunch with my mom at a place in my ragingly liberal neighborhood, so I know we can bitch about the election results in public with no fear of reprisal. We may end up starting a rally.

I'm never going to stop doing a bit of a double-take when people refer to Hillary Clinton by just her first name. I suppose I should be used to it by now, but still, it always makes me blink a bit. (Somewhere around here, I have a "Let Hillary Be Hillary" pin that my mom got me when Hillary Clinton was first getting well-known nationally, and I was 12.)

2000 was the worst for me. I couldn't believe the outright theft of the election. It was maddening. 2004 was bad and disheartening, but I was already fully embittered by then.

2000 was worst for me because it was the first presidential election that I could vote in, and I'd sent in my application to get an absentee ballot from NJ, but the absentee ballot never came, so I didn't get to vote. (Well, the ballot arrived in January, postmarked in October. Never did figure out what was up with that.) It was also really irritating for me because one of my college friends was from Florida, and would have voted for Gore, but he didn't bother with getting an absentee ballot, because "It's a pain, and one vote won't matter."