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Nov. 6th, 2008 03:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brokenrecordI got my major plan signed by the chair of the psych department! So now I've almost declared my major! I just need to turn it in by Nov. 10 (if I want to be able to register next week, that is), and it'll be official! Kind of scary that I'm far enough into my college career to have my major declared and all that, but I'm glad I'm nearly done with it.
Is it weird that I'm ridiculously excited to find out who's going to be in Obama's cabinent and such? I mean, I'm not THAT familiar with most people in politics, and it's really unlikely that I'll know most of the people anyways, but I'm still excited about it. I think it's mostly just because once people start getting named, it becomes real that he's president. Can he just be inaugurated already?
Also, I'm starting to have a little hope for the MN senate race. What with absentee and provisional ballots being counted, Franken has now narrowed Coleman's lead from around 700 to 342, and there are still provisional ballots to be counted, I believe, and they seem to favor Franken. I'm trying not to get my hopes up too much, but I'd really love it if Franken won. Also, there's word that Obama is likely to pick up Nebraska's 2nd district, and even though if he does win it, it obviously makes no difference in the outcome, I think it would just be ridiculously cool for Nebraska to split its electoral votes (it'll be the first time in history that a state has ever done that!) and it'd be the first time a Democrat gets an electoral vote from Nebraska since LBJ.
(Edit: Ok I'm reading more about the MN senate race and I don't know and now what I'm reading is contradicting what I was reading before because apparently MN doesn't have provisional ballots because of same-day registration, so... I don't know where the extra votes are coming from, because they also aren't absentee ballots. But whatever, the closer the margin, the better. And there will be a mandatory recount. Unfortunately the result probably won't be official until, like, December. ugh.)
I have a German test to study for and I need to clean my room because it's a mess and I said I'd help someone with math stuff tonight and I have to tutor at 4, so I should start doing something productive.
Is it weird that I'm ridiculously excited to find out who's going to be in Obama's cabinent and such? I mean, I'm not THAT familiar with most people in politics, and it's really unlikely that I'll know most of the people anyways, but I'm still excited about it. I think it's mostly just because once people start getting named, it becomes real that he's president. Can he just be inaugurated already?
Also, I'm starting to have a little hope for the MN senate race. What with absentee and provisional ballots being counted, Franken has now narrowed Coleman's lead from around 700 to 342, and there are still provisional ballots to be counted, I believe, and they seem to favor Franken. I'm trying not to get my hopes up too much, but I'd really love it if Franken won. Also, there's word that Obama is likely to pick up Nebraska's 2nd district, and even though if he does win it, it obviously makes no difference in the outcome, I think it would just be ridiculously cool for Nebraska to split its electoral votes (it'll be the first time in history that a state has ever done that!) and it'd be the first time a Democrat gets an electoral vote from Nebraska since LBJ.
(Edit: Ok I'm reading more about the MN senate race and I don't know and now what I'm reading is contradicting what I was reading before because apparently MN doesn't have provisional ballots because of same-day registration, so... I don't know where the extra votes are coming from, because they also aren't absentee ballots. But whatever, the closer the margin, the better. And there will be a mandatory recount. Unfortunately the result probably won't be official until, like, December. ugh.)
I have a German test to study for and I need to clean my room because it's a mess and I said I'd help someone with math stuff tonight and I have to tutor at 4, so I should start doing something productive.
