I feel like I’ve contracted ADD. Election-onset ADD. I’ve been obsessively checking polls and turning states different colors on various websites for the past week, and it’s stressing me out. Today I’ve been alternately reading the NY Times and unleashing a shitstorm of hate speech on the pompous jack-asses that populate this campus. Well, not really on them. I’d lose my job. But I’ve been talking shit about them all day. I went to a lecture given by a woman with a PhD in Bioethics and the room full of crusty old white men just ripped her apart. It was appalling and I’ve never seen anything so condescending before. It wasn’t an academic discussion—these sexist bastards were just pontificating and sucking each other off, attacking the presenter and doing as much as possible to dominate her presentation and take control over the whole lecture. It was unbelievably sickening.

I hope tomorrow goes well, because—among other reasons—I could really use some cynicism detox.