Election day

Woo hoo!!! Now I am so glad that I stayed here just to experience the election and vote in person. I am much happier to leave now and be an American.

I need to leave at noon tomorrow, and my plan was to pack until 4:00 am then sleep until noon, but I don't think I am going to make it. Hubby is asleep and he lost interest in commenting endlessly on my clothes I was trying on - "this is for meeting a scientist in his office" - "this is for a lunch meeting with other scientists" - "is this too severe? and pretend that I don't have on polka dot tights". I don't have that many clothes, so I can't figure out why I have to try on every single permutation before every trip. I think if I gain or lose a little weight, then pants get shorter or longer and I have to adjust shoes. That is my excuse. I am rather chunky at the moment, and I don't want to get far away and find out that my pants are too short.

I was distressed to find out that the weather there is no different than it is here. I lost 2 weeks of summer when I was in Uruguay in August, and I swore I would get it back. But it looks like I will not - just hold steady.

My suitcase looks MUCH bigger on the outside than on the inside. I have one suitcase of clothes, and one full of crap. I will check those, then carry on my computer backpack and my WMD quiver. (It was supposed to be a longish backpack, but turned instead into something that looks like it should carry arrows instead of knitting needles.) Still have to decide which purse to take, and if I should take running clothes.

Obama is giving his acceptance speech now :) I am very happy. I can leave now that I have taken care of that.