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[aroraborealis]

It amazes me that MoveOn and other organizations are planning parties for election night. I'm kind of amazed that any people I know directly are doing so, even. And it's not that I don't think it's a fine excuse for a party -- it clearly is. It's just that I cannot fathom being around a big group of people, much less a big group of strangers, that night. I mean, if it goes well, great! But if not, the last thing I would want is to be surrounded by people I don't know, or, frankly, to have even one person around whose presence I don't find grounding or comforting.

I guess this is proof that I haven't lost all of my introvert cred in the last few years.

Comments

[desiringsubject.livejournal.com]

Wow. Yeah, that's probably the most introverted thing I've ever read! When you started that I thought you were talking about superstition and the possible folly of planning celebration parties. But then you went in the different directions. Wacky how different brains are different, eh? I can't imagine facing the worst alone without other people around me. Unless they were people who sucked a lot.

[mizarchivist]

I get that big time. There's a reason I'm not going to Diesel that night. Unless we're winning. Still, no.

[tamidon.livejournal.com]

I'm with you. I'm already a nervous wreck and Gods know what I'll do if Obama loses. If he wins I want to be home so I can drink champagne.

[omegabeth.livejournal.com]

I was at the Kerry rally at Copley Square four years ago. By myself. I will be much, much, much happier this time in a friend's living room, no matter the outcome.

[dpolicar]

(nods) I can empathize with your attitude here, though I've gotten a lot more... er... I dunno what, really, but not-that... in recent years.

[contessagrrl.livejournal.com]

Yes. To all of that.

[sweetbaboo.livejournal.com]

Well, sure.

Of course, more selfishly, if I was invested and my candidate won, I'd want to been seen with my fellow gloaters. And if they lost, then I could just skip it, because nobody I know would show up anyway.
:P

[dougo.livejournal.com]

I'm so with you (that is, in not being with you, or anyone else). Except I'm thinking of going to a game night where I hope the TV won't even be on at all.

[catness.livejournal.com]

Hrrrm. I can't imagine either extreme. I'm going to have a night like any other, except periodically I'm going to check to see how things are going.

[miss-chance.livejournal.com]

unsurprisingly, I'm feeling way more extroverted. Election night takes a long time for anything to begin becoming clear. Refreshing electoral-vote.com every few minutes only leads me to insanity. So I want to be around other people because they might be able to distract me for 5, 10, 30 minutes or so at a stretch, so that next time I hit refresh, there's maybe more information. Also, way extroverted over here. (that's my october surprise).

[coraline]

surprise buttsecks extroversion! i'm with you on that :)

[vito-excalibur.livejournal.com]

Huh...I'm very much an introvert, but I have a strong memory of the 2000 election. It was the second worst date I ever had. :) But we had gone over to vokzal's to watch, and it got tenser and tenser, and at one point we decided to take a break and go walk around the neighborhood. And we ended up hanging out in Green Party headquarters watching the TV with them when the networks finally said, "Fuck it, it's probably Bush." Awful as that moment was, I remember there was something about being in a room with a lot of people, some of whom I knew, some whom I didn't know, who all understood what a very, very bad thing had just happened. And I think it was important that I didn't know all of them. Because I felt connected to my country, and that could only happen because it wasn't just me and my small coterie of friends. It was a small buoyant aspect of a very, very wrenching evening.

[starphire.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I understand where you're coming from. The last few elections, I've hidden at home and watched things unfold from the computer. And that wasn't so much fun, but I didn't want to be out at a party for the same reason. I also had near-certainty both times that my candidate would lose anyway, and that had a lot to do with my staying in.

In my mind and heart, I have not had a president for the last 8 years, the only time in my life when I've felt this way. I've never once (and it took a good deal of deliberate effort on my part) used the title "president" when referring to that man, and I'm proud of that fact.

SO, if O *does* win, there's a part of me that desperately wants to go celebrate the end of 8 years of holding my breath waiting for a brighter day, and I think it will be sad if I don't get to do that. But I don't think I'd want to go to a big party with a bunch of strangers. Being around friends would be much better, though I don't know of any parties being thrown amongst my friends list.

[cos]

I was alone, mostly, for the 2004 result. It wouldn't been much better at a party of people I could presume mostly-shared political views with.