More Election Anxiety

Today has been an incredibly unproductive day at The Public. No one seems able to focus on anything. Well, anything besides getting free coffee from the Starbucks across to the street for our contest with a theater in Texas for who can collect the most free cups of coffee. But everyone here is really antsy about the election and it's affecting everyone's work ethic. It's not helping that the computer I'm using keeps freaking out and kicking me of the Public network so I have to re-synchronize in order to access the scan files I'm supposed to be working on.

Today was the birthday of Carl, one of the IT guys. We had cupcakes (delicious!) in his honor and forced him to give a little speech. He said thanks for the cupcakes, etc, and that it's exciting to have his birthday on such an important day, and then said if the election doesn't go the way we hope it will, we can all go crash at his place in Canada (come on, people, it's a theater. did you think it would be anything less than overwhelmingly liberal?).

The work day ends in 36 minutes according to the clock on my computer, and Madeleine doesn't get out of class until 6:30. Not like anything will be clear any time soon, but it's still very nerve-wracking.