Journal: Obama WON!!!

Dear Journal

I slept till 11 today. I don’t remember any of my dreams this time. But I didn’t wake feeling rested. Is that weird? To sleep for hour after hour and to wake feeling as tired as when you went to sleep?

I am assuming like most people today, I got sucked into the elections in the US. I kept switching between the new channels on SkyTV and updates that we online. I laughed the whole time about how information was always in conflict between the channels. Heck, even between what was reported online and what they posted on the web pages were also sometimes in conflict.

I think it was Fox News’s coverage that most had me laughing. Even after the 270 mark was reached and the Obama was re-elected, some of the people on their show were still trying to play it up as too early to call and that it might be 2000 all over again and Romney my have a final surge. Despite the facts some of them kept trying to say it was close. To me it felt like watching a Republican version of The Daily Show.

I had plans to head out tonight and check out what was happening in town. But ‘It’ decided to not come home tonight, so I had to stay here and look after his interests. I had really wanted to check out the festivities and do some writing. But trapped here I am again, and will be for the next several evening as I will need to look after the other.

I know it is selfish and this place gives me cheep accommodation and food and other amenities but I just want to be able to begin my life. I love my family and will fulfil my obligations to them but I do feel trapped here. I feel stagnant and in desperate need to start living. This family has cost me my friends, my family, the love of my life.

Still, anything I do to try and help myself, damages them. Could I live with that? For the moment the answer to that is No but how much more can I put up with.

With ‘it’ here, I have two nights of writing ahead. I hope to have some new short story posted by Friday so keep an eye out.

I had drafted one today about an American in the UK celebrating the election results. The story turned into a rant about how bad America was and how inconsequential it really is. I really was quite displeased with how the outline turned out so I have it shelved for the moment.

So nothing much truly happened. Boring day really.

Hopefully tomorrow is fuller.

So I am saying goodnight to the Kingdom.