woooo first post from the new laptop! Tom broke down and wrangled with the router, so now my laptop can chomp happily away at the wifi.

This is good and also veryvery bad. One of the great things about the laptop (which still needs a name, hmm) is that since it is new and very basic it has NO distractions. Internet=biggest distractionEVAH.

Soooo we might have to turn off the wifi now and again.

 
So Melissa's NaNo present arrived today.

LAPTOP!!!!!!EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!

Tom was an awesome thing and hunted up cheap basic laptops for me, as all I needed was something to type on this November. And he found two that he highly recommended, and this one was a freaking AMAZING deal so I pounced. He's letting me hold off paying him rent this month so I can pay for this instead.

I am in love, the screen is huuuuuuge! And I can type really well on it. Haven't got the hang of a touchpad mouse yet, and I really haven't done much with it, BUT, I wrote 500some words on my lunch break today, instead of the 300some I usually manage. :D I'm so psyched.

 
I can not novel for crap tonight, the election results were pretty clear like an hour ago but the tv's still on, I wanted to hear Obama's speech.

And in the opening, as he addressed all different sets of opposing groups of people... he listed "gay and straight".

OUR PRESIDENT addressed gays as equal with straights.

That, is an amazing, and wonderful thing. I mean it *shouldn't* have to be amazing, but oh. my. God. we will have a president who's fine with gays, one who ISN'T afraid to address them.

God that makes me happy.

So many things are making me happy, I'm just SO, so glad, to see that the country really DOES want some change. It's about time, and oh I'm so happy to see it. I was so scared, that we'd shy away from it yet again, but we didn't and I'm so happy to see it.


...I was also made very happy by McCain's concession speech. Anytime the crowd started booing or shouting down Obama...he gestured for them to quiet, said "please, please," in such a sincere way, like it really did make him sad to hear them being so negative, such sore losers. That was really, really nice to see.

God I'm so excited, I mean, I know there's really not much the President can *actually* do to change things, it's all on Congress, and on whoever has money, and everything else, but oh, just to have a face to this country that feels like he's trying to move forward instead of clinging to the system already set in place.

I really do feel hopeful, which is a very strange - and wonderful - thing to feel about a government. When Obama talks about patriotism, it feels inclusive instead of exclusive.