Anxiety

I read a funny little ditty from funnyman Larry David. He wrote, here, about his anxiety for the upcoming election. I found it right funny, but since have pinpointed the reason for my anxiety for the fifth of November to come and go.
My anxiety rests in the fact that I will not be able to watch the returns as I have in the past. Four years ago I stayed up late and cried myself to sleep. Eight years ago I fell asleep with exhaustion and had nice dreams of a positive outcome. It later became a nightmare.
Both times I watched the election returns with anxiety, excitement and hope, but I was able to switch from channel to channel in hopes that one network was lying to me... they weren't.

So my anxiety? Yeah, well there's a problem. If I manage to actually wake myself up at four in the morning to watch the info roll in, I'm not certain I will be able to see the coverage that I so longingly want! I will not have computer access to follow the returns until 7:00 a.m. and I am not sure there is a French television station that will devote everything to the U.S. elections (there is, in fact other news over here). I have no television in my own "apartment" anyway and would have to go to the other assistants kitchen and watch quietly. How will I be able to watch quietly?
So there's the problem.
I voted. That's it. I cannot easily phone bank from over here. I would love to! "Hi, I'm calling from France to urge you to vote!" That would be great, but it's not gonna happen. Now all I can do is wait and hope that some television station picks up my vibes and I can watch, albeit quietly and probably with no remote control, as the polls come in.

- Patrick