Election Correction Protection Deflection Gerschnection

I have been slogging through the hours, going straight from one thing to the next, and have looked up to find a glorious expanse of 24 hours in which I have no obligations. Unless I'm forgetting something. But, no, I'm pretty sure I'm free now.

Hoorah. Guess I'll make a list of stuff I could do with my time, then go take a nap.

No, no, I'm going to make the best of it. Although I could certainly use some sleep. Tuesday afternoon I drove up to Capital City to watch my father receive some bigshot award at his company. There was a bigshot reception, with a staggeringly high bigshot-per-capita ratio, then a loooonnng awards ceremony, hosted by a bigshot local celebrity newscaster. It was overall pretty cheesy, but it was nice to see nurses and people who don't often get acknowledged... get acknowledged.

So, up came my father's category, up went his name in the list of top three nominees, then up went the person who had won, who was not, as it happens, my father. He had been slightly misled - he'd thought, because his boss forbade him to leave town and miss the awards ceremony, that he'd actually won an individual award. The next 45 minutes were slightly uncomfortable, considering that I'd driven 3 hours and he'd forgone an important trip to be there. Turns out his team had won an award which it was his job to accept and he looked good, blahdi blahdi blah, so it was not all for bust. But those were a puzzling 45 minutes.

So then I slept at my brother-in-law's place and then got up at 6 to drive to work.