What a momentous week this has been for world history - some might argue it's really more about American history but considering the 'leader of the free world' makes decisions that impact all our lives these days, I think we've all had enough of a stake in the recent US elections to celebrate at the result.
After months of preparation (mostly consisting of soaking up relevant media articles, watching episodes of the West Wing and reading The Audacity of Hope), Gareth and I stocked ourself with pizza, Pepsi, pretzels and pudding (the election was obviously brought to us by the letter P) and settled down to watch the entire night of US election results from 11.00pm to 6.00am. In practice, this consisted mostly of several hours of dull talking heads commentary from random people whose insight was no better than my own, briefly punctuated with amusing moments such as when Gore Vidal (who appeared to be drunk) told the BBC correspondant he (BBC man) shouldn't ask any him (GV) questions since he (GV) didn't know who he (BBC man) was.
Our patience and resilience was rewarded when Barack Obama emerged the clear winner and Sarah Palin's hopes of murdering John McCain and usurping the presidency amounted to nothing.
In a cynical and largely charmless world, it's nice to feel so strongly united with so many people, regardless of race, gender, creed, geography or age and feel like we've all been witness to a historical event.
A change we need indeed!
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