the waiting the waiting

Unfocused doesn't begin to describe me today.

I've exerted huge discipline not to call friends who are working the polls in Missouri, Nevada, Arizona.

I've had out-of-the-blue calls from two exes I haven't heard from since the Kenya crisis. I think it's because we feel like we're living a major moment in history. And we reach instinctively for the ones who have shared our other major moments.

I just want it to be 6pm, so I can head to the Election Watch Party at La Peña. Dozens of friends will be there. That's where I was on election night 2004. I remember biking home through the dark streets at midnight, gutted over the losses, yet infused with the power of community.

La Peña presented Migritude's world premiere in 2006. I am a part of La Peña history, and it is a part of mine. Can't think of anywhere else I'd rather be tonight.