I told myself to go to bed. That the election results would still be there in the morning.

It didn’t work, I totally gave myself a two finger salute and stayed up until 4am – when I was absolutely sure there was no way McCain could win.

Weasel woke me up this morning at 12:30 to let me know that Obama had definitely won and in a landslide. I feel sort of shocked still. I didn’t actually believe it would happen, it doesn’t feel real yet. I’m sure it’ll sink in as the day goes on. And once I watch his victory speech and McCain’s concession speech.

Also, I feel a little empty because this election has had my hackles up. I couldn’t stop thinking about it, talking about it, debating it, researching it… I’m so glad to finally let it go.

Sadly, when I went to look up all the goodness on my computer, I got an e-mail from my sister. Her husband has been laid off a little earlier than we were expecting. They’ve been shutting down his plant for a year already so it has always been a question of when and it was before this recession started. So now I’m going to do my best to find UK companies that will want to high a highly skilled engineer and bring his lovely young family over so he can work for them.

Not sure how I’m coping with big, big high followed by big, big low.

I expect I’m too tired to process it all anyway.

So I am going to get a few things we need [milk and eggs look how traditional!] and focus on Guy Fawkes instead.