Decision '08 Presidential Results

My subway kept getting held up on the way home and I was working myself up into a total snit. Then I got to the polling place, went right to the line for my district, didn't have to wait long at all.

Somehow after voting I felt totally giddy. They gave me a cookie. There was skipping.

I feel kind of self-conscious, like I'm being a rather silly full-of-myself white person saying this but I'd be lying if I said it wasn't cool getting to vote for an African-American for president. I would have voted for no matter what color he was in this race, but it's an extra bonus that by voting in my own interest I can be part of a breakthrough.

Now I've got this cool thingie to watch: