Election Day is around 20 minutes away from being done, and, as one of my co-workers predicted, we still haven't decided on who our President will be for the next 4 years. I spent an hour and a half on a line at the polls today, and it was like Revenge of the Uppity Middle-Aged Housewives and Self-Righteous Old White Men. My polling place was in a carpet store, so people kept ducking out of line to check carpet samples. Some guy was on his cell phone, so some other guy went off on him and kept yelling at him, "You're being very rude and disturbing all of us! Take your conversation outside!" Tensions were running high indeed. The thing is, I became furious when 6pm Pacific Time rolled around and polls on the East Coast closed, they started calling states almost immediately -- before the polls here on the West Coast closed, possibly influencing voters (not that it really mattered in the end, I suppose, but the principle is still valid). Didn't we go through this last time? Didn't all the networks specifically agree that they wouldn't start calling states early based on the 2000 election debacle? I will be happy when all this is over. I can only hope we come out of it for the better. But if the myriad of sirens I hear down the street as I write this is any indication, things won't be getting better anytime soon.