Oh boy.

I did surprisingly well yesterday in not following the news. Honestly, it turned out to be easier than I expected once I had a sense of what was actually happening. I’m not sure I’ll be following the news for the next couple of weeks—maybe even the next four years.

By mid-morning, though, my phone was blowing up with texts and DMs from people wanting to unload their feelings about the U.S. election. I get it. I have feelings about it too—big ones, deep ones, and frankly, not very good ones. But I’d promised myself I’d spend the day working and hold off reading any news until evening as a kind of “reward.” Yeah... well, that didn’t happen.

So today, I think I’ll continue steering clear of the news. Maybe I’ll just head to jujitsu tonight and let out some of this energy. I don’t see anything good coming of all this, but I can see unlimited potential for things to go horribly, horribly wrong.

At least I’m not Ukrainian, though.