Ugh! I guess I got lucky I haven’t seen that one. Every time I hear trump say he’s going to, “Protect the women,” it gives me the willies. He is sooo creepy. Who wants that thing overseeing you. Guh!
I’ll be off tomorrow night. No alcohol here, but I’m thinking of making home made chicken wings and onion rings with lots of different dipping sauces. It’s something fun that I do for special occasions.
Mrs. Jihi will want fudge/brownie ice cream. And lots of it.
Not taking tomorrow off, sadly - too much of a backlog of tasks that I must catch up on.
Y’all ought to be my friends. 
I am off (checks watch) today anyway although maybe I should have changed it to Wednesday because I don’t think we will know anything today. Working Wednesday will keep me distracted but I am just afraid of having to go to bed tonight and wake up to hear that Trump won.
No alcohol here but I did buy a bag of nacho cheese Doritos that I intended to eat either in commiseration or in celebration to honor VP Harris. I suspect I won’t feel like eating them if she is losing, though.
I will also be having cake and going out for all you can eat shrimp because it’s my birthday. I fear I will soon understand how those with September 11 birthdays feel each year.
As a European resident, I have the luxury of simply going to bed while news is still unfolding, and then getting up in the morning, skipping over the whole nail-biting part of waiting for the polls to close.
Of course, there is still the equally nail-biting coda of the following few days, waiting for ballots to be counted and for the GOP to tip their hand on their plans for chaotic ratfuckery.
And also it’s an open question whether or not I will go to bed and actually manage to sleep, or just lie there gazing up at the ceiling with nauseous doubt.
But I won’t be staring at and/or obsessively scrolling through news screens. Small blessings.
School is closed. Half the campuses are polling locations, and post-Ulvade, it seems absolitely insane that we usedvto let the whole population filecin and out of schools without any concern for potential shooters.
Teachers technicallyvhave a “virtual professional development day”, but its not really enforced. That said, i easily have a day or more of school work to catch up on.
Its entirely possible i will play 100 games of Spider Solitaire today.
Happy to be working. Work distracts.
Buying groceries and possibly pizza.
Have a supply of intoxicants at home if needed.
Will try to read and stay offline.
The time change has me getting up an hour early so far - maybe I’ll get lucky and be tired enough to fall asleep without queasy ruminations.
I only work until 1:00 pm, so I didn’t take the day off. I tend to get sleepy around 4:00 pm and get back up around 10:00 pm. I’ll miss the prime time reporting, which will probably be better for my heart. I will open my laptop with a great deal of trepidation when I get up.
If it’s bad, I may have to call in sick on Wednesday.
I’m retired, but my schedule today includes my normally scheduled activities.
Normal work-at-home day here. A light morning, meeting wise, so will probably do a quick lunch-time bike ride. I am going to try and resist the news and for sure avoid the doom-scrolling. On the west coast so maybe after polls close 8pm I’ll take a look. There is nothing left to do at this point election-wise, so may as well have a normal day - it’s going to be a sunny 72F and breezy so I plan to work a normal Tuesday and just enjoy the day.
So I got up at the unholy hour of 5 Am. My usual time of awakening is 7 AM.
I am heading straight to the local polling station before work.
Have packed anti anxiety meds in purse just in case.
I lit incense and wished upon a star already.
Godspeed the day.
I could take the day off if I wanted to, it’s called a non-priority holiday. I’m gonna bank those hours instead. I’ve got too much to do.
I do work from home, so I can keep track of things.
And I’m going to have to work off hours for a bit too during our maintenance period. It’s the time scheduled for when we can take servers down.
In the store today with a potentially busy day, which is no bad thing. I’m off Wednesdays anyway, also no bad thing because no matter how it goes I’m going to be a mess.
I will also be a mess.
As the old Joni Mitchell song goes, “I wish I had a river I could skate away on.”
Normal work day for me (what passes for normal). Teach voice lessons at a university from noon to six, then a rehearsal from seven to ten. Eight years ago was similar. Came out of the rehearsal expecting to hear that Michigan, Pennsylvania, etc. had been called for Clinton. Nasty surprise when I turned on NPR in the car. Four years ago no rehearsal because of lockdowns. Less nasty, but still anxiety inducing.
Guess what I just discovered. Apparently whiskey mixed with amaretto coffee creamer isn’t half bad. Happy 11am.
I did take tomorrow off.
Because it’s Wednesday, and I don’t work Wednesdays. I work 10 hours a day, 4 days a week, and have each Wednesday off to split my week in half. It also makes it a lot easier to get errands done.
It’s just a coincidence that this election, the day after is my regular day off. 
It seems that expectation of intense emotion on Election night and the day after is the norm now. What was it like in, say, the 1980s or 1990s? Did people treat elections as much more of a “whatever, it happens it happens” attitude because elections weren’t so narrow and candidates were decent?
I would say yes…
Like I said in another thread (or perhaps previous in this one) I never worried about it if it were decent candidates. When it was McCain Vs Obama I never lived in fear of any civil liberities being taken away or me amd my wife being unable to do IVF. Same with Obama vs Romney. I thought Romeny was an elitiest and snob but didnt fear being fully discriminated by him. Even with Bush and Gore (the first election I was able to participate in) I was very dissapointed that Bush won but again I fear any loss of civil liberties, I just thought he was for lack of a better term, an idiot.
With Trump its a whole different story.