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olorielHave a little anecdote.
Not quite a year ago - 11 months, more like - my Japanese host mother, after watching the news, turned to Peter and me and asked, "Who do you vote for, Hillary or Obama?"
Japanese television is notoriously bad and focuses, even more than television anywhere does (or so it feels), mostly on what happens within the own borders (the only news from Germany I got there was something about "Kunuto-kun", i.e. Knut the little polar bear who was no longer quite so little). But the American pre-election hassle made it into the news even then. And so Kazuyo said, one evening, "Who do you vote for, Hillary or Obama?"
I pointed out that I was not American and thus didn't have any say in this, and Peter said that he wasn't registered to vote, which made for a short distraction because neither in Germany nor in Japan do you need to register in order to vote: When you reach voting age, you're registered automatically.
"But if you got to vote," Kazuyo then said, "would you rather vote for Hillary or for Obama?"
And then she added something surprisingly blunt and decisive and un-Japanese: "After all, young, intelligent people like you wouldn't vote for McCain, no?"
...
So the big day (for better or worse) is almost upon us. I am not going to stay awake and watch the big N24 election night coverage - why should I stay awake all night in the middle of the week if, come morning, the decision still hasn't been made? Just for more documentaries and arguments - that we have been subjected to for the past two years anyway?
But I will cross my fingers.
I am not entirely starry-eyed, and I do not honestly believe that a victory for Obama would ring in a new golden age for the world. But even so it would be so much better than the alternative.
Well, we can always hope.
- - -
In completely unrelated news, NaNo has begun, and at least during these first three days I have somehow managed to be a mean, lean writing machine in between work at work, work on the house, and general cases of real life.
I have a list of 36 keywords for the plot. So far I have not progressed beyond the first, which as you can see has taken almost 7000 words. If it goes on like this, the story will need more than 200.000 words rather than 50.000.
Thankfully I don't have to finish the entire story in order to finish NaNo.
- - -
Darcy hasn't returned from this evening's excursion yet. Likely he's just busy doing something exciting and not feeling like coming back inside; but as we had visitors a bit earlier whom we helped loading a lot of our old furniture into their car, we are somewhat (irrationally, hopefully) worried that he climbed into the car unseen and is now on the Autobahn on the way to Darmstadt. >_>
Not quite a year ago - 11 months, more like - my Japanese host mother, after watching the news, turned to Peter and me and asked, "Who do you vote for, Hillary or Obama?"
Japanese television is notoriously bad and focuses, even more than television anywhere does (or so it feels), mostly on what happens within the own borders (the only news from Germany I got there was something about "Kunuto-kun", i.e. Knut the little polar bear who was no longer quite so little). But the American pre-election hassle made it into the news even then. And so Kazuyo said, one evening, "Who do you vote for, Hillary or Obama?"
I pointed out that I was not American and thus didn't have any say in this, and Peter said that he wasn't registered to vote, which made for a short distraction because neither in Germany nor in Japan do you need to register in order to vote: When you reach voting age, you're registered automatically.
"But if you got to vote," Kazuyo then said, "would you rather vote for Hillary or for Obama?"
And then she added something surprisingly blunt and decisive and un-Japanese: "After all, young, intelligent people like you wouldn't vote for McCain, no?"
...
So the big day (for better or worse) is almost upon us. I am not going to stay awake and watch the big N24 election night coverage - why should I stay awake all night in the middle of the week if, come morning, the decision still hasn't been made? Just for more documentaries and arguments - that we have been subjected to for the past two years anyway?
But I will cross my fingers.
I am not entirely starry-eyed, and I do not honestly believe that a victory for Obama would ring in a new golden age for the world. But even so it would be so much better than the alternative.
Well, we can always hope.
- - -
In completely unrelated news, NaNo has begun, and at least during these first three days I have somehow managed to be a mean, lean writing machine in between work at work, work on the house, and general cases of real life.
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6,780 / 50,000 (13.6%) |
I have a list of 36 keywords for the plot. So far I have not progressed beyond the first, which as you can see has taken almost 7000 words. If it goes on like this, the story will need more than 200.000 words rather than 50.000.
Thankfully I don't have to finish the entire story in order to finish NaNo.
- - -
Darcy hasn't returned from this evening's excursion yet. Likely he's just busy doing something exciting and not feeling like coming back inside; but as we had visitors a bit earlier whom we helped loading a lot of our old furniture into their car, we are somewhat (irrationally, hopefully) worried that he climbed into the car unseen and is now on the Autobahn on the way to Darmstadt. >_>
