the euphoria version

I am not going to dwell on my cat's aesthetically discouraging, slow-growing nasal mass (was a less-sexy phrase ever written?), which is really the only crappy blip on the current horizon... I vented on the Facebook, and that is silly and vulnerable enough for one night.
today could have felt so much differently. I didn't realize how desperately I wanted things to work out until, holy fuck, they DID. I'm no longer a flaky daft idealist! I'm the MAJORITY.
this is an especially exhilarating place to be. Washington state has always been my home; I was born here, several generations on both sides of my family live here; it was always the default when I'd fantasize about my rad-ass adulthood from my incensey, postered bedroom in Anchorage, Alaska. Alaska made me, but Washington justifies me... does that make sense?
so I am perhaps extra, possessively proud about how the elections turned out. I am startled-happy, which is a fucking amazing and too-rarely-felt emotion. I am STUNNED that we are all on the same page. this election meant a lot to me, hence my insufferable posts and earnest shrillness... I was even more excitable than usual. for everyone who tolerated me, thank you. thank you very much. so to be in Washington, where civil rights are being decided by the PEOPLE and not a handful in the government, and hundreds of thousands of us want the same things? fucking goose bumps! in 20 years, if not 5, people are going to be bewildered and appalled that the issues we voted on were even in question. they will find yesterday's election as absurd as we now find the civil rights issues of the 60s. I feel very proud to be HERE and NOW for something that will knowingly matter as it is happening. I am proud to live in Washington, and I am very proud for all the incredible people I know in Alaska who are still fighting for the same things.
fuck, I'm treacly. it's been a day. it's been a good day. people are smiling a lot here. the weather was comically lovely. today was a definitive capital-letters YES, period. YES.

-eat local, broadway.
-not related to my pontificating, but it looks cool.
-10th and Pike, 11/6/12.
-broadway, 11/7/12.

"for many minutes, for many hours, for a bleak eternity, he lay awake, shivering, reduced to primitive terror, comprehending that he had won freedom, and wondering what he could do with anything so unknown and so embarrassing as freedom."
-Sinclair Lewis