HEEEEE.

So the techs at work tease me because I have the pentagram tattoo, so they make a lot of witch jokes. And one of the techs and I were talking last night about that guy who blessed Sarah Palin against witchcraft and killed some poor woman's pet snake in Africa because she was supposedly a witch.

Tech: Yeah, a snake sounds like a pet a witch would have.
Me: But I don't have a snake. I just have chinchillas.
Tech: Yeah, heathen gerbils.
Me: Oh, my God, Heathen Gerbils is so the name of my future rock band.
Tech: Heh. Pagan Ferrets?
Me: Stop that!

I'm still saying, "WTF?!"

'Cause, seriously, I've never voted for the winning guy before. I'm still a little dazed. Voting works? Who knew?!

That said, I don't expect perfection. I don't expect Obama not to do things that'll make me cringe or say things that'll make me roll my eyes or screw up. It's guaranteed he's going to fuck up something eventually. It's not going to be all teddy bears and unicorns with rainbows shooting out of their asses, especially considering the crappy state of the country he's being handed.

I'm registered Independent. I always register Independent, because as much as I lean ridiculously heavily Democrat and have yet to vote for a Republican I want to remind myself to give both sides a fair look. The problem is that since I started voting in 2004 (I really didn't start getting interested in politics until after Bush started fucking things up, alas) there hasn't really been a Republican candidate who's made me feel even half as hopeful that their actions might help me and others as much as Obama does. I always walk away from most Republican interviews and political ads and the like feeling as if if they thought they could afford to ignore a poor single woman like me, they would. And God forbid I mention being an atheist. Or loving my gay friends and family members and wanting them to have equal rights. Or that while there's almost no circumstances in which I'd get an abortion I'm sure as hell not cruel enough to close that option for any other woman.

All of THAT said, that's fucking adorable.

There, just so I stop feeling like I'll never get back in the groove.

I just rewrote the first sentence of my NaNo in a new file. But it's a start. And there's no way I can take overtime on Saturday, so.