November 2
World: 46,860,757 - 1,206,069
US: 9,290,443 - 231,55 dead
Russia:
Texas: 942,303 - 18,534 dead
Florida: 812,063 - 16,834 dead
Sweden: 124,355 - 5,938 dead
Okay day ... talked to Annika in the morning - she headed to a spa, J and J have both bought apartments. Emails, registration, and still some milestones. Class was more marxist theory and some Butler - wove in Plato and made it all make sense, sort of. Got another box from Mom, from mid October.The the end of Unforgotten just miserably sad as people badly broken try to hold their lives together. Looked in the mirror and saw dad - miss him, still. Tomorrow is election day and I am scared.
November 3
Election night. I should have written something but I was too terrified - we still don't know. I kept having visions of the jews who didn't leave in time because they could not fathom how bad it would be.
November 4
There is hope, although there are still lawsuits and 45 is suggesting the dems are "finding" ballots if they keep counting votes. So many people complicit. Oh, and today we hit 100,000 new cases of covid-19 in one day. Our coffee table arrived ... in the middle of everything, life goes on. Rachel called during dinner because her landlord made her sleepless.
November 5
You just keep slogging through and taking one day, one hour at a time. Keep the faith, keep your head down, one step at a time and toes first. Cameron has signed up for the army as a combat medic - sets out on the 24th. I hope it will make him happy. We bought an elliptical and I hope we will use it.
November 6
Manny didn't send the questions yesterday so AK exam was moved to today and then Alice had a doctor's appointment and I didn't see that she had asked me to send it out and when I did I couldn't get to the shared mailbox and John was in a dissertation defense and sent me teh questions and I got them sent out but they were the wrong questions so I called Charles and we figured out a solution and AK was fine with it and then the day went on like that. Finished the report for the women at six and then Jim took me to Michael's before dinner and then we watched election stuff all night as I made earrings. It does like like patience will pay off - maybe with an actual mandate. Yay.
Of course this was also the third day in a row of new cases over 100,000 - 125,000 to be precise. Biden mentioned that in the almost victory speech he gave late in the evening where he said he and Kamala have started the work already. They will hit the ground running.
There is so much work to be done.
November 7
They finally called it. and the people cheered and came together in the streets and had dance parties and the relief was palpable. Biden and Harris spoke in the evening and promised to work for all of American. Biden recited a hymn and spoke of the work ahead and Harris spoke of the audacity of hope and then their families came on the stage and there was fireworks and music and dancing and joy.
Our day was full of stress and conflict and I am not sure why. We watched the Bourne conspiracy and I almost broke two of the remotes. Another day of over 100, 000 cases.
November 8
Well ... we did the Milton and talked about evil and how sad it is, how limited and broken. Then I messed up breakfast, lashing out at Jim for something I had set up ... it did lead to a good discussion about where we are and the stress and frustration and some of the pieces. We biked to the grocery store and the storage room and left the bicycles there and sorted out a fair bit of things to throw away. Tried watching the Age of Consent with James Mason and Helen Mirren and it was pretty bad, except the shack turned painting was awesome.
World: 50,395,174 - 1,256,177
US: 9,968,930 - 237,568 dead
Russia: 1,760,420 - 30,292 dead
Texas: 990,015 - 19,184 dead
Florida: 843,897 - 17,121 dead
Sweden: 146,461 - 6,022 dead
