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alice on Tuesday, November 4th, 2008 at 11:03 pm
About
Hello! I'm Alice, which is my real name (most of the other names here have been changed, though, to protect the innocent). I live in an almost-100-year-old house in downtown Chattanooga, TN with my first husband, Ralph (who is from New Canaan, CT), and a cockapoo named Nonnie (the moniker comes from a Laurens van der Post book). Our daughter, Emmie, plays a supporting role on the blog -- she's off being a student, but she pops in often enough to keep things interesting.
I originally hale from Batavia, NY, a quiet little town in rural western New York. Ralph and I met while attending college in Carlisle, PA, and then moved on to Chapel Hill, NC together before finally settling in Tennessee. Other places we've lived in long enough to have a mailing address include London and San Francisco.
This blog is about a lot of things -- the places I visit, things I cook, people I meet, photos I take, things I read, and -- of course, politics. I'm an unrepentant progressive, liberal, lefty, euro-loving, educated elitist and I'm looking forward to an administration that doesn't raise my blood pressure quite as often as the outgoing one did...
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November 4th, 2008 at 11:45 pm
OMG! This is our time. How long have we waited for this?
Peace and prosperity for the next four years!
November 4th, 2008 at 11:54 pm
I have waited for the pendulum to swing back since January 20, 1981.
Long wait.
But here we are!!!!
November 5th, 2008 at 12:54 am
YAAAAAAY!!!
November 5th, 2008 at 1:01 am
God bless America!
November 5th, 2008 at 7:02 am
I’m still pinching myself!
November 5th, 2008 at 7:58 am
I am OVERWHELMED with emotion for the excitement of a New Day for America!!
November 5th, 2008 at 10:33 am
I’m with June…I have to keep checking to make sure it has really happened!
November 5th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
And I’m with Paige. I found myself thinking: It’s over. Election day is actually over and a black man is now president! Oh. Wow. Our guy won! Skin color didn’t matter (that much to that many).
November 5th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
OK, not president. President elect. My widget says I have to wait another 75 days.
November 5th, 2008 at 2:13 pm
I was so fearful that this would not happen, I did not stay up. I woke up at 2:00 this morning and turned on the TV and just was overwhelmed with emotion.