Elect Papayas

It's hard to get fully invested in all this election coverage when I'm sitting all alone in our Merizo house. I'm trying. I've got my desktop radio on, streaming from the internet because I can't get any stations in this metal container. I'm refreshing various websites as the vote counts come in. I'm reading the analysis of the exit polls. Maybe this is what all those families felt like in the forties huddled around their radios listening to coverage of a war far far away.


That being said, I can hear the ocean and see the tide coming in. I'm a little worried about the papaya tree outside our back window. It's got a good dozen pint-sized green papayas on it but they haven't gotten any bigger in the last month. One, still only baby fist sized turned orange and promptly shriveled. I think it's the massive vine choking the tree's trunk. These are my concerns down here in Merizo.

Oh, and look at that. Obama's taken Ohio. NPR's already calling the election, practically. Nice.