What were you thinking when you woke up the morning after?

[American Tragedy]

When I first opened my eyes I was still groggy and hallucinating, slightly hung over, not certain if the relatively negative results that had begun to arrive from Florida and Ohio right before I went to bed weren't just a dream.

Then my mom came downstairs and told me that Kerry was going to concede. It hurt so much, like someone had struck me between the shoulderblades with a sledgehammer, like a friend had just been murdered. I covered my ears because I couldn't bear to listen to the pointless interpretations and smug remarks on CNN in the other room. I don't think that I will be able to endure televised news in the foreseeable future.

I covered my face and wished I could just go back to sleep, go backward in time to last week when everything seemed possible and imminent.

[Maiden England]

1. please oh please let it all be a bad dream

[Starlight]

4. Same here. It must be a nightmare.

:scared:

[drhilarius]

2. I woke up angry this morning...

But now I know how anger is a gift. I have separated myself from that other America. When they lose jobs, or bitch about gas prices, or bitch about reproductive rights, I will happily say "fuck you."

I am motivated to finish my degree quickly, write my book, and, if things go as shittily in 2006, get the hell out of this nightmare.

[SammyWinstonJack]

3. I woke up thinking K/E were going to fight, Edwards said they would just

before I went to bed around 2 a.m. I soon found out that wasn't to be! That's when I went into shock!

[fujiyama]

5. I never really slept

I had about three hours of muddled, disturbed sleep.

Then I was called by my friend when he heard Kerry was conceding. What a shitty thing to be awakened by.

I knoW I have to go sleep but I dread waking up tomorrow. For some reason waking up is painful after a bad event.

[camero]

6. You don't wanna know

Really. You don't.

[dorktv]

7. I was "is it 6:50 already?!"

I was up late for the past three days.

[ropi]

8. i woke up thinking

today i have to face my freshman students who may not be here this time next year.

[fernsibal]

9. I woke up to

my husband saying "don't bother getting out of bed". ( I teach classes only in the evening wednesday). I heard rain outside, and all I could think was "what is there to live for, now? With their control of the Senate, we can't even hope to impeach him".

[Lone_Star_Dem]

10. I woke up on the couch with remote in hand

My first coherent thought was, NO this can't be happening.

[kodi]

11. that this is no longer the country i grew up in

i am a bit frightened about that, but i am more angry and determined to do something about it than ever before.

I refuse to allow the labors of those who sacrificed for my freedoms to go in vain.

"For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die." TK 8/11/80

One nation, one world filled with liberty and justice for all.

that's the dream, deferred for now, but not denied.

[Sugarbleus]

12. We'll pick up our spirits soon and go on the attack

San Fran had a loud anti war march today, for starters. Someone else in here is creating "special" pins that differintiate we "blues" from the reds.......for all dems everywhere SocalDem is doing it.

I used my anger and disappointment to write letters like crazy today.

Was cathartic.....Best wishes all