I mean, come on... So they announced it, Barack won the 3 electoral votes from Vermont. We were two of those votes, in a state we knew would vote our way, overall.
It's funny that everyone keeps saying how historic this election is. it is historic. in reality, everyday is history. as we go from today to tomorrow we carry some and leave everything else behind. As i move toward tomorrow (or quite literally toward bed in just a bit), i know that today meant something, but what will really travel with me? what do i want to bring? I will always remember voting for the first time in Vermont, the tiny gym at the Smilie School, the fact that Sarah asked if there were lines and i laughed.. out loud. Will I remember what i had for lunch (left over spanish rice), or the socks i wore (leopard print), or the fact that jack's collar got chewed at camp? doubt it. these were other things i could have written about today in my blog... but i thought, nahh, in the end, this is what i will want to remember.
When Bill Clinton won the election way back when, I was a teenager and i wrote an entry in my journal about how cool it was to have a president that played the sax and liked rock n' roll. How cool is that? if left to my memory alone, i would have forgotten that i even cared about the president way back then. I would have thought i was too busy being a bad-ass and not caring. luckily i wrote it down.
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