I’ve been avoiding doing a morning blogpost because it is truly intimidating to have to follow PJ, Vernon and Travis, who can so cogently begin a blogday. Lately, cogent and Soupy are not great partners.

The school year is beginning and I’m not ready. The summer which usually recharges me has instead been quite draining. Hubby’s 4 week hospital sojourn and the endless doctors’ visits that have followed weren’t what an old teacher needs. ( He’s much better, working successfully on regaining the 40+ pounds he lost as well as all that muscle strength.) But, in spite of what all those “education” . blathers who write about teachers who work for non-monetary remuneration, I work because I need to. It’s a great bonus that I generally like the work, but work it is and it’s not really a choice.

And now there is this terrifying election that we’re facing. Obama is a Democrat, as opposed to one of those Rethug loons. That gives me some measure of comfort. I like a lot of what he says and am not too thrilled with some of it, too. But, his election means that the Supreme Court will not have 3 more Scalias. Perhaps the environment won’t be assaulted as much or as often. Social Security won’t be abandoned and maybe, just maybe, Americans, will finally have a right to healthcare.

The prospect of what John McInane (did you know he was a POW?) or foreign policy expert Miss Wasilla could do in 4 years is too scary to contemplate.

Will Americans really not vote their secret and/or unacknowledged racism once they’re faced with that ballot? Has Rove’s election steeling apparatus been sufficiently dismantled? Will young people vote in large numbers? Maybe I’d better stock the liquor cabinet in preparation for election night.

It’s Saturday, so enjoy it. Monday will come soon enough.