I am waiting for Gary to arrive and having an SMS conversation with Aya about the upcoming election and it got me thinking and actually feeling so I figured I would hop onto/into the computer and get some thoughts out.

I have been having wonderful political conversations as of late. My friends (liberal hollywood lefty souls that everyone seems to love to stereotype) and I have these great debates on who would be better for the country/world and I just laugh and enjoy the fact that we are struggling to figure if we should vote for a woman or a black man. I feel like all got invited to this really great party, like we just ended up going to the wrong house and they let us in anyway, and the music is great, the food is awesome, there's great wine and it's an open bar, and we're just so HAPPY and COMFORTABLE and full of glee...but we keep checking in with each other to make sure, "is this okay? When will we get kicked out?"

I was just texting to Aya (and wow, do I hate that word, but is it not so right, in a way? i send her text, no pictures, no voice, just the ASCII, m'am) how we must accept the fact that it's okay to be kinda excited. Yes, there are problems with the Dems, sure there are, let's just assume that, but still--it's hard to even imagine, but I figured things have to change because balance must be attained. Bush and Corporation came mighty close (or already have, depending on how gloomy your day is) to bringing down this country (and I realize there is time), to truly destroying our standing on this planet, and things just have to change because, well, things cannot continue to suck for this long. Yes, I am an idealist/optimist, but that's my wiring.

I do feel that America, I really do feel this, can inspire the world again. And there's a reason why people are actually excited about this election, because we have a chance to rally around a FIRST, a NEW EVENT, to deliver a president that has never existed before...because no matter who they are now, Hillary or Obama will change, they will be better, I truly think, they will be BETTER at this job, even better than they think they will be, because they will be so conscious of the decisions they make and how they will fill out the history they are already making. And those of us who are so upset, we want this kind of transformation, because we believe that that kind transformation is inherently good, that good will prevail. Not only that, we will feel more ownership, we will hold them more accountable, we will feel this leadership more because we are all living the new era together.

So, I wrote that this weekend and now it's apparently super Tuesday and right now I am sitting in another hospital waiting room, this time waiting for Whit to get out of an endoscopy to check out what's going on with her digestive system. It's been actually kind of a rough couple of days, with Whit experiencing Emergency Room-worthy abdominal pain, but she got a CAT scan yesterday and now the endoscopy should help reveal whether this is an ulcer or something. Preliminary results seem to point to some kind of mild pancreatitis as a result of the internal trauma associated with the surgery, which is a real bummer...but I am confident things are going to be okay once we know exactly what is up and how to alleviate the pain.

It never seems to stop. But I'm still gonna vote today. My friend Christopher is threatening to make a sort of political roundtable podcast that he wants me to be a part of. The last presidential election we were meeting once a week to discuss all that was over drinks at The Shortstop, I guess he's ready to record our m/utterings.

Gotta post this now.