Yay, the election is over.  I can now walk through the streets of San Francisco without the barrage of Obama this and Prop 8 that.  Hopefully Prop 3 will pass so the hospital will get some desperately needed funding.  It’s sad when I’m supposed to be doing feeding therapy and we don’t have any food.  Parents are having to bring food or I end up buying babyfood at Target.

But I digress…This truly is an historic day for us as a country but I hope that there will be more to it than just a sigh of relief in the coming months.  Growing up near the “Orange Curtain” and now living in SF has given me two very one-sided views of the world and I know that a lot of people voted strictly along party lines and not because they necessarily believed in their candidate.  Yes, we’re in debt.  Yes, we are in war.  Yes, President Bush sucks.  Let’s get over it and talk about something else.  I would like to see a happier, more optimistic world that prefers to debate about which is the best Halloween candy.  I’d like to live in a community where I don’t have to go to work with grumpy liberals who constantly complain about our healthcare system and economy.  I like all of the people I work with but when politics come up at lunchtime, I just have to pick up my things and finish my lunch elsewhere.  Most would say that I’m a passenger in life and I tend to go wherever the car takes me.  Nevertheless, I would like to be able to stare out the window and enjoy the ride as well.