I hope you can sleep, Theo, until the fireworks wake you!

I am settled in expecting to watch until very late. May fall asleep on the couch. But I have to watch.

Timelies all!

Not watching the returns. I'll be reading fanfic instead. I am also using my back massager, as I have a nasty pain in my lower back/hip that hurts whenever I move my legs.

I turned on some kind of live election return analysis from WaPo on my phone because I don't know how to treat myself well. I'm not looking at it a lot, though.

And I just saw a headling about Russia being behind bomb threats that shut Georgia polling stations and I'm yelling (inside my head because I am still at the office) WHICH GEORGIA so that's how well my reasoning is functioning

A coworker is texting me about the election and I'm trying to ignore things. And tell myself that W VA going GOP for Senate isn't really a loss since Manchin wasn't really a Dem.

Also the space bar on my keyboard is broken. It's a mechanical keyboard and I keep popping the space bar loose and finally part of it broke and the the space bar key won't fit back in. So I guess I'm getting a new keyboard tomorrow. I won't be spending a ton of money because I don't really need a fancy keyboard. I'm actually in awe that my monitor has held up for as long as it has (it's a gaming monitor I bought when I worked at Best Buy so it's about a decade old at this point).

Work kept me well occupied today (last day of A Christmas Carol load-in) and every time I went out, or even into the lobby, I could see the voting line for one of the downtown supersites wrapping half way around the block (and Chicago city blocks are slightly larger than most). There has been an outdoor line of varying lengths at that site since early voting started, but today people were patiently staying in line even in the rain.

About an hour ago I got a text from my dad letting me know that my mom is scheduled to have a cancerous kidney removed in ten days. (In fairness, the schedule was the only part I wasn't already aware of.)

I picked up a 16oz margarita with my take-out tacos tonight and I'm trying really hard not to down the whole thing.

Mom made chili with blue tortilla chips and guacamole for dinner. Comfort meal achieved

What Karl said!

I have NPR on my phone. Also, getting Iowa results. I sure hope our home pollster is right.

Sipping Manhattan, and eating ice cream.

I just made (really fucking good - they can be a crap shoot for me) grilled cheese sandwiches for us, comfort-food wise, so that's something.

Margarita’s a good choice, aurelia. As are ice cream and grilled cheeses! Well done y’all