I woke up at 9 a.m. this morning - cheerful, well rested, with butterflies and birds chirping, and the smell of fresh flowers, I was blissfully unaware of the world around me. I started with a cup of joe, country music, and a red hat with white letters.

Just kidding.

I woke up this morning at 11, groggy and with frizzled hair. There was no coffee, country music is not my first love, and I really don't own the hat. I was blissfully aware though, so that's... something. I hadn't looked at my emails, hadn't looked at my Facebook, nada.

I forgot it was election day.

Of course, my bliss and forgetfulness was broken the very second I got on Facebook. Reminded that I needed to have voted today. The worst monster today is the person who didn't vote. Though, I'm not so sure if they're very credible... since they are the exact. same. people. that just yesterday had called both candidates the worst evil to happen to our country.

Right.

So now, at 6 o'clock, I'm looking at election results. and it looks like the race is tied, and I'm hoping beyond hopes that this goes to Congress, that somehow, something more... sane comes about than this.

I saw a funny picture tonight. The basic premise was that the same people that allowed these two choices are members of the same country that has been mourning the same gorilla for 6 months.

I saw a related post (though I'm trying to stay away) that pointed out we had other options a few months ago. Now, we're stuck with these too. These two. Better two choices than a tyrant, eh? Well, unless it's a Greek tyrant, since they actually had good success in the whole tyrant department. We don't even have success in the Democratic department.

I don't think this is what the founding fathers had in mind when they made a republic with a democratic elective process. If only they'd made it more like the Greek model, that way we could unelect them.

It's eleven o'clock. I'm terrified we might actually get stuck with Donald Trump. Not because I dislike Trump (For future insurance. Heh.) and not because I want Hillary to win, but because I'm scared for our nation's future. We're about to elected the guy who tells it how it is. Sure, the media has literally overplayed the things he's said about Hispanics, and Muslims...though his actions have implied the same.

I just did the math and Trump is going to win. If things don't change, he wins. I'm ashamed. Gary Johnson got 4 percent of the vote. In his home state he got 10 percent. Seriously? What makes me even more sad - no not sad, disappointed - is that Jill Stien got .88 of the vote. Again, seriously? Do you know how many people on Facebook less than a week ago said they'd vote for her? They caved. Johnson's support caved. We know why; no one says it, no one thinks about it, but we know why.

So now I'll put down my laptop and cool down until the end comes, and I don't neccesarily mean the election since I'm banking on the return of Christ at this point.

It's eleven thirty, and my girlfriend is down here, frustrated about things in her life, and for a brief moment, I forgot that the next four years of my life are about to be decided.

It's almost twelve now, and only eight states remain. It looks like Mr. Trump is going to win. I'm going to go to bed. I'm going to wake up at 9 a.m., groggy and tired like I usually am. As President Obama said "The sun will still rise in the morning."

Goodnight, and remember that Congress (unlike some people) will want to get reelected. So things won't be that bad.