Politics, of course!

Amazing sweep on reproductive rights last night!! -- This is incredible news, and much better than I was fearing.

On the downside, lots of bad news for GLBT folks around the country -- more bans on adoption, more discrimination in constitutions. My heart's especially hurting for my friends in California, and although I'm not yet willing to stop holding my breath, hoping for a turnaround on the numbers, I know it's unlikely.

Also, I was sorry to see the Prop 5 fail in CA; it could've been a great model for prison and incarceration/drug-treatment reform. However, the marijuana initiatives in Michigan and Massachusetts passed, which is good news!

Edit: Looks like a mandatory recount for Franken!

In Ohio, I'm pretty much ecstatic; all the ballot issues went how I was hoping, Kucinich kept his seat, we got Marcia Fudge to replace Stephanie Tubbs-Jones (who died earlier this year), and OHIO FINALLY WENT BLUE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

On the downside, Election Protection is reporting problems with people being inexplicably dropped from the rolls in Ohio -- it disenfranchised one of my coworkers who didn't know to fight for at least a provisional ballot

Unfortunately, my flare came back with a vengeance last night, so I was varying between dozing and watching the returns, but I did see Obama's speech in real time, and was duly impressed, yet again. The joy on RTA this morning was absolutely contagious. Let's hear it for making some history!

So. Tired.

Med grumping, again, now that I've made my politics post.

The flare continues; I'll have a couple good days, or part of a good day, and then it's back. Yesterday I was as fine and dandy as I've been in a while, up 'til about 4:30pm, and then it all went downhill so fast that last night was the worst I've been in a while (arms/hands/shoulders/back, mostly -- even the most minor movements were causing this bizarre burning/shooting/aching whateverthehell, and for large chunks of the evening the best I could find were "less painful" positions, even lying flat on my back and not moving).

I'm exhausted today, and I don't think it's lack of sleep; I actually wasn't up all that late, and I napped off and on throughout the earlier evening. I think it's fibro-fatigue. Sucktastic. Grafton's in town for a couple days, and I'll probably practically sleep through his visit. Argh.

I've taken the month off patient-instructing and escorting, and although I think it's definitely the right decision, it's depressing me, and it feels like my life is shrinking in upsetting ways. Also, I'd kinda like to be on good enough terms with my body to get my libido back again.

Also, in the midst of the worst week of the year at work. It'll keep getting worse 'til Friday, when we get all the uber-panicked calls. So even aside from total lack of PTO time, I can't call off without screwing my coworkers, and my days are exhausting. I took between 165 and 180 calls each of the last two days. I'm moving slow today, though, not likely to get near those numbers.

*grumpgrump*

This makes me as happy as anything else that's come of this election:

‘Voter turnout reached a level unseen for a century in the historic election that swept Barack Obama to power as the first black US president, according to data published by analysts on Wednesday,’ AP reports.

Two-thirds of voters turned out nationwide, a record not beaten since 1908, according to the independent election monitoring website RealClearPolitics.