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[smarriveurr]

Ten long years.

Ten years ago this November, while I was living in Germany, I was awoken several times in the middle of the bloody night by German friends calling to tell me the election was undecided, and I had no president, and ach, the world was ending. Four different people I had to reassure that we had months to figure it out, because the

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[firynze]

Heh, I considered doing that. Only I hate the phone, and email's not nearly the same.

[smarriveurr]

I'd risk talking on the phone for this, if I had a friend to harass at Too Goddamn Late o'clock. And if international rates weren't so high. It's less amusing to call someone at midnight local time / five in the morning election time compared to the calls I got when it was vice-versa.

[lietya]

This cracked me up. I'm sorry you didn't have anyone to harass, though! (I guess I kind of do know such a person, but as she's as heartbroken as a Gore supporter right now, it'd be mean.)

Also, congratulations on making me realize it *has* been ten years, and therefore that I am very old. :)

[smarriveurr]

I was a Gore supporter at the time, but had no idea how screwed the country was going to wind up when he conceded.

Yeah. It's scary. By the time the actual anniversary rolls around, I'll have hit the big three-oh myself.

[stephiny]

...people actually sleep on election night??

[smarriveurr]

I sure did, back then anyway. Also, I'd say that the election coverage on the Beeb is way more awesome and entertaining than the American coverage, unsurprisingly.

Last election, I literally just turned off all coverage and hid until my lovely lady let me know a winner had been decided.

[stephiny]

I get way too excited about elections. Although I'm not too impressed by the coverage. When results were trickling in at the beginning we got to hear all about the first three, but the next hour was almost all the "breaking news" about people being turned away from the polling stations. Would it really be that difficult to stop for just a minute here and there to maybe announce "results just in from x"?

Although everyone in my house was watching it on TV, we ended up giving up and using the BBC website to find out the actual results. TV was off by 4am

Admittedly I'm a bit of an election whore, I stay up all night for the US election too.

[smarriveurr]

I didn't really catch the coverage, just heard about it secondhand, so I probably got all the interesting bits without having to wade through anything.

Ironically, I think more Europeans would stay up the ungodly hours to catch US election results than exchangers and ex-pats.