YAAAAAAAY!!!

I am so freakin' excited, I don't even know what to do with myself. Today it's difficult to be an expat and so far away from all of the excitement. When I went outside to get my lunch, I just wanted to start shaking people, screaming, "President Obama! President Obama!" That would be wildly inappropriate, and VERY un-Thai, but I just want to wrap America up in a big, cozy blanket and give it a huge kiss on the forehead. Today is an incredible day. The weather is beautiful, the air seems somehow cleaner. As my coworker said, "The world is happy today." Huzzah. I even had a huge, curly, black hair floating in my curry at lunch (which I tried to retrieve before it slipped off of my spoon and into the spicy abyss), but even THAT can't bring me down today.

I do wish that I could talk to people here about this. I wish that I could see an American flag, or eat one of those star-shaped Krispy Kreme doughnuts with the red, white, and blue sprinkles. But...soon enough I will be returning to celebrate Christmas in a triumphant and reenergized America. So much has changed since I have been gone. So much will look different.

And, well, my friend Laura was hoping that after the election results are in, people would start making out in the streets, just like in WWII. And so, um, just so you know, because I'm not there to see the excitement for myself, I am picturing Americans everywhere doing this:



After eight awful years, I feel proud to be an American once again.