Useful: about half an hour ago, Princeton Consortium put up a post about how/why their prediction models diverge so much from 538's models. Pretty interesting (and also still makes me feel good about the [highly] probable outcome of the election): [link]

I am reasonably confident about the outcome of the Presidential election. (For values of "reasonably" that come in about 87% or so.) I continue to be worried about the Senate. If we don't get a Democratic majority in the Senate, we won't be able to approve any new SCOTUS justices, and despite her awesomeness, RBG is well into her 80s.

If she dies or retires without another liberal on the court, we have a conservative majority in an era where the right wing is pushing hard on limiting reproductive choices and voting rights and no end of other things.

So yeah, I sent some money to the Act Blue list of Senate races last night.

This is going to be a rough week. Tomorrow is a full day, and I will spend 15 hours on Tuesday working as an election worker, and then on Thursday I get another biopsy (ouch).

You ever feel like you'll welcome a really bad cold or the flu because you'd get the spend several days in bed without feeling guilty about it?

I need this election to be over, because right now I'm coping by eating my feelings, only I think I'd need to eat the equivalent of a space whale to really comfort me right now. And, like, my body cannot contain a space whale, y'all.

Shrift, you and I are twins on this. Except my body keeps trying to accommodate the space whale.

Is anyone watching Pitch? Structurally that last episode felt just like the West Wing ep Noel.

I'm 2 or 3 weeks behind on Pitch.

... and it looks like Twitter is down. Bah. Time for bed.

We decided to avoid Election Night madness and just bought tickets to go see Mad Max: Fury Road Black & Chrome Edition.

I continue to be worried about the Senate

I think Kander (the Dem whose assemble-a-rifle-while-blindfolded ad seriously pushed my competence kink buttons) has a good chance in Missouri.

You ever feel like you'll welcome a really bad cold or the flu because you'd get the spend several days in bed without feeling guilty about it?

So often! And then I try to remind myself that personal days and mental health days are legitimate. And then I get up and go to work, usually.

If I didn't have the interview today, I would have turned around and gone home as soon as I realized I left my food AND wallet at home. Great start to the week. But no, camped out in the cafe, I'll go get those things when I leave this building to go to my office.

Tomorrow the election ends and four solid years of congressional investigations begin.