notes on the election

here is an excerpt from a letter that i sent to K the day after the election. i posted this email to her from my phone while enjoying happy hour at a bar, waiting for a date. it was perhaps the happiest hour i have had in a very long while:

I am slightly tipsy and writing this on my iPhone so apologies if it does not come out right.

I can't even really describe how I feel right now. I think it is just starting to sink in.

I did not really do much by way of celebrating last night I think mostly because I am way gun shy after the last time around, if that makes any sense. I keep waiting for the other shoe to drop...

School today was crazy. All of the students were exhausted from staying up, but also high from happiness. In my first class of the day I had a girl stand on the lab table and jump up and down dancing, screaming Obama! Obama! at the top of her lungs. While it was disruptive of the lesson plan, I decided to let them process. This is a huge deal for us all, especially a bunch of black kids from bklyn. Far be it for me to deny them their joy. I told them I would count to three and they could holler as loud as possible for 30 seconds.

Later in the class the dean came by and said he heard there was a commotion in the room. I pretended I knew nothing :)

I wish you would have been here to document the whole thing. You would have done a better job for sure.