Running, Elections and Truth

I went running today. I went running yesterday too. Unfortunately, I had not gone out for a run in a while, and it has definitely been a very long time from the last time I worked out two days in a row. Hopefully tomorrow will be day number three.
I woke up this morning and immediately turned on the television to make sure that nothing bad had happened yet. We did well. A few false alarms in Pennsylvania, but as far as I can tell, it went smoothly. I voted for the first time ever. It was an interesting experience. There were a couple things that I was not aware of, such as voting for justices to continue being justices.
I am just realizing that so much of what i have been focusing on for the last two months; namely the positions and character traits of John Kerry and George Bush, is completely irrelevant. I do not know what I am going to do for fun now. Seriously, I am on the verge of tears. Not neccesarily because of the results( although the results are not to my liking)- but because all of these things that I know that are now forever useless. And the sad part is that these things were important and I felt it my civic duty to know them. So it is not as if I was memorizing video game statistics or something equally unimportant. And yet, these things are now on that level.
Truth...is too big a topic to tackle at 12.51 in the morning when I have a paper due tomorrow and an arabic midterm on friday. I promise that I will do it in my next post (not sure who I am promising this to, as I only know of two people who have read this and that is because I told them to).