further ahead
Damn!
And just like that, as of this morning Biden pulls ahead in Pennsylvania—expected for days—and Georgia, securing the likelihood that Biden's electoral lead in the end will actually be 306-232, which Gabriel noted over text to me this morning was the exact split in Trump's favor in 2016 (before three electoral defectors from Trump and five defectors from Clinton changed those numbers slightly). The key differences this time being that the winner of the Electoral College will actually also be the winner of the popular vote, and the electoral vote percentage split of 57% to 43% will for once actually be reflective of the voters themselves. (That support for President Fuckwit is as staggeringly high as even 43% is a conversation for another time, about the lunacy of putting party over country.)
In fact I've exchanged an unusual number of texts this morning, three different conversation threads, with Laney, and Danielle, and with Gabriel and Mandy together. Nobody has officially called the winner just yet, but we're headed steadily toward a point where requesting recounts will no longer have any hope of changing the results. That won't stop Trump, of course, because he is a moron.
Anyway. Shobhit came home from work early yesterday, partly due to not feeling well and something odd happening in his ear that he thinks may be an infection of some sort; he just made a doctor appointment for tomorrow morning. He was basically fine the rest of the evening, though, and predictably just spent all that time watching cable news and refreshing maps on his laptop.
I, on the other hand, watched an advance digital screening of a Kevin Costner movie opening tomorrow that I actually liked, called Let Him Go, which really exceeded my expectations. Anyone who might not like it would have legitimate criticisms I would totally understand, but I still happily gave it a B+. I even briefly considered an A-minus, but then decided that was over the top for this movie. It gets rather violent in a couple of spots, but I'm still going to recommend it to my dad in particular. It's actually open in theaters now, and probably not in Olympia, so I may just keep an eye on whenever the hell it will be streaming somewhere and then recommend it.
In any case, the watching of the movie and then the writing of the review took up a good two and a half hours of my evening. Honestly I did not sleep quite as well last night as I did the night before, but that seemed far less to do with current events than it was just the way my sleep quality fluctuates at times these days. And it sure as hell was still better than my night Tuesday night, which compared to my state of mind the rest of the week was like being in a separate dimension.
[posted 12:25 pm]