4 Years Ago...

I just had to include this from the "Alamo Diaries," a blog I had four years ago while attending Miami of Ohio in Oxford.  This was my post election day wrap-up after a devastating/awesome (we are not politically biased here) night.

Election Day Bug-a-loo.

"You told me you loved me 
I know where and when 
Come sunrise, surprise surprise 
The joke's on me again 
I know you don't love me 
You know I don't care 
Keep it hidden better 
Did I say the world is fair 
I thought I was just the guy for you and it would never end" 

-The Magnetic Fields "I Thought You Were My Boyfriend" 
(or, what John Kerry should have said in his concession speech today) 

Well, the Devil has come to collect his price. Yep, after eighty-six years of selling our souls in Boston, the Prince of Darkness gets the last laugh. George W. Bush was once again crowned King of the Infidels last night. Can I get a "Ayayayayayayayayaya!!!!" from the guys in the turbans? No? Ok. 

Well, at least I got drunk. How drunk? I'm not quite sure. Alanna and I went to Jake "the Shakes" Knight's humble abode for a little "Going Demo-craZy Bash '04" last night. Ok, it wasn't oficially called that, but I thought it was quite a clever name. Jake was super-hyper, but then again, if you know Jake you know this isn't anything out of the ordinary. Running around in a Pocahontas wig like an eight year old who had been kept up to late, we watched as he and a war-painted face Kerri performed interpretive dance to "I Thought You Were My Boyfriend" by The Magnetic Fields. 

I'll save the details of my demise, but included beer after beer after beer. Soon, when things got really bad, we turned to chain smoking. FYI, I do not condone smoking. It is bad for you. It kills people. HOWEVER there comes times in your life where ruining your lungs doesn't seem like such a bad idea when you're being faced with living the next four years of your life in complete uncertainty if you will get a job that hasn't been already outsourced while the rest of the world plans your country's demise. 

But hey, at least Miami football won last night. Go team. 

I woke up face down at about 11:00 am this morning. I looked out my window and realized the sky was gray. The thought of getting out of bed today was just too much, so I pulled the covers over my head until 1:00 pm. Pathetic, maybe. I just couldn't face the reality of my life in the next four years. 

I saw an apparition of Satan in the soap scum on our shower curtain. It could have been a possible hallucination or just coincidence, but there he was as I washed my hair with John Frieda's Brilliant Brunette. Staring. Waiting. 

I hear Toronto is lovely this time of year. 

To quote Kristen (who I still love, even though she voted for Bush)... 

"Meh."