Robots Don’t Sleep

I am flying out tomorrow afternoon to Utah! Yay!

Wait, why am I excited to go to Utah? This will be the second time that I’ve visited since I moved to California. I guess that I’m just really excited to see my old college friends. I really wish that some of them lived closer. I’ve found that, for the 4th (!!!) time in my life, I have to start over and make new friends in an unfamiliar place. You would think that I’d be good at it by now. Think again.

I totally suck at making friends! I am just not good at it at all. When I think about it, I’ve really only been spending my time at 3 places: home, work, and the gym. I just don’t have time for anything else during the week, and on the weekends, I don’t have anyone to go out with so I usually just stay at home or go for a long bike ride. So, I guess I can see why I’m not meeting any new people.

Gone are the days when I sit in a coffee shop and wait for magic to happen, for people to appear out of thin air and strike up a conversation. I guess I’ll have to think of some new ways to meet people.

Anyway, I’m very excited to spend the weekend with old friends.

This is a defining moment in our country. I don’t care whether you’re democrat or republican or conservative or liberal or moderate or independent… your children will look back on this moment and remember that President Barack Obama was the underdog in this race. He was the one that was counted out against Hillary Clinton and John Edwards… He was the one counted out against the combined force of John McCain and Sarah “Hockey Mom” Palin. Whether or not you think you are are too good enough to vote, or that your vote doesn’t count, or that you are unwilling to elect a “lesser of two evils”, I beg you to look at elections past and the great distance that this nation has come. I beg you to believe in President Barack Obama.

I believe in him. Even if I may be considered a “fan boy” by some, I don’t care! I support him and I believe that he will be an historical president that will unite this country over the course of the next four years. I am of the belief that there are candidates out there that can ignite the feelings of our voters. I truly believe, from the bottom of my heart, that Barack Obama will serve this country to the best of his ability just as John McCain or John Edwards or Hillary Clinton or Ron Paul would have. I believe, as Barack Obama does, that this is not a red or blue or indifferent America… nor is this a liberal or conservative or moderate America… nor is this an idealogical or agnostic America… this is the United States of America.

And fuck me if I’m wrong, but I am a firm believer in this America.

I believe that our children will ask us about this moment. They will ask us what we were doing in this moment in our country’s history. Were we celebrating? Were we mourning? Were we full of excitement? Were we filled with hopelessness? Or, were we hopeful?

I will feel that we felt truly United. Our first black president… an underdog candidate… was elected to the highest office that the American political system can acknowledge… Barack Obama was elected, by majority and by the college, to be the 44th President of these United States of America, and I, for one, couldn’t be more excited.