Well, it's all done now. Might as well pack up and go home. The elections over, Bush is in office again, and the world will wait for America to sink under the waves. Might as well sit back and wait for the four horsemen because I already hear the trumpets a-blowing...
Hey! The Lakers Won!!! And Chris Mihm did well. Good for him.
It's gotten cold here in Silistra, if you call high 40s cold, which I tend to do when I'm not in Alaska. And as is apparently the custom on the first cold day, several city blocks in Silistra had a scheduled brownout. This left me out of the internet club for a while, and my Bulgarian tutor and I worked on my lesson in darkness, but it's all better now. The heat will probably be on tonight.
Basically, I'm short on keen insights today. None of my students really cared about the US election when I asked them about it, but they could tell me the candidates, which is better than last year's could do with local elections. They'll know who the US president is, but they won't be able to tell me their mayor's name. Kids these days.
For what it's worth, all apocalypse talk aside, I think a Bush presidency will only heat up the world over the next four years, and I'd rather have a nice, calm world than a hot terrorist factory. Whether Kerry could have cooled things down I don't know, but I know Bush won't take things that way. Basically, the Bush win was sad news for me, but at least he has a reasonable mandate (Ohio aside), which will mean less backbiting, hopefully.
Posted by Rob at November 3, 2004 08:30 PMWhat kind of weather in Bulgaria is "clod"?
Posted by: freed at November 6, 2004 07:25 PMIts been suggested to me by more than one non-American friend that Europeans want to participate in in the US elections because the outcome effects them, too. I had to tell them that it's impossible, but a nice idea. Bush being president makes it a little harder to get out of bed in the morning dosen't it? The Islamic population of my village is less than thrilled, as well.
Posted by: Kara at November 6, 2004 11:05 AM