Been catching up with a lot of my friends returning from a convention :3 that has been fun

Yeeeaaaah fuck Van Drew, he's gone.

My sinuses hurt like hell though. Some sort of upper respiratory infection and it hurts. I hate it.

My therapist successfully talked me down last week and while I was still stressed, I wasn't a paralyzed, twitching mess for the week. I had a boring thing to do last night so I poured myself a glass of wine and did it. I avoided news sites until the texts started coming. First one was a buddy expressing cautious optimism and a desire to not jinx things. Second one was the same buddy, fifteen minutes later, yelling BLUE WAVE.

So that was nice. We even elected a nice firefighter with a ton of lefty endorsements to the House. I met him at a debate during the primaries and he was the only one that didn't make my flesh crawl. Apparently that is not a ringing endorsement for neurotypicals but it's damn near a badge of honor from me.