What a momentous occasion. I am very pleased. Evidently, much of the world is pleased with this decision; it’s been an incredible journey for the Senator, and this is only the first step towards the change perpetually emphasised throughout his campaign, but for now let’s just shout out with glee: HELL YES, HE MADE IT! (It makes me sad though to think that Australians have yet to witness such an historic occasion on our own turf; like, when will we vote in an Aboriginal Prime Minister?) To be fair on the Republicans, McCain’s speech of defeat was gracious. I think he ended up sounding pretty sincere, and definitely downtrodden. Anyhow, I think they’re all doing him a favour by not electing him as President; it’s obviously a great deal of stress and anxiety to be in those shoes.
On a side note, let me reiterate: Alex Ross’ works are truly fantastic! While Cam and I were lining up to see Jim Lee at Armageddon we some some bloke wearing the Super Obama shirts, and the prick in front of us asked him to stay back so they could compare their “Obamas”. Yeesh. Anyway, my next book purchase is definitely going to be this one: Mythology: The DC Comics Art of Alex Ross. I saw it in Readings the other day on one of my bookshop rounds and I fell in love with it.
I didn’t do an awful lot today. I went to the bank to withdraw one of my term deposits, on behalf of my dad. He’s a shrewd one. He gets me to open term deposits because I don’t pay tax (although that’ll be changing very soon). A n00bie teller was organising the closure of my account; I was actually a little bit worried she’d wiped out the interest or something. But it was all good. Now I’m going to have to re-invest elsewhere.
Afterwards I had lunch with my uni mates in a Japanese restaurant in the city. I don’t even remember what I had. It was some sort of curry don. And the drink I ordered (iced latte chocolate) was rubbish. And then like the fobs that we are, we went to get sticker photos taken in the nook and cranny of Chinatown! They’re actually the nicest ones I’ve taken. I remember seeing some awful results before. My favourites:
P.S. If it looks like I haven’t been blogging everyday “YOU’RE WRONG!” to quote (Harry-cum-Goyle in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets), I’m posting on both LJ and Eveninghour. Yay.
P.S.S. I am really happy with the new blog layout. I used Live Trace (my favourite Illustrator filter) to strip Catwoman and Batman down to the “basics” (take that comment as you will). It’s smouldering!
