Hiding under a rock

I am consciously avoiding all news for a couple of days because I have finally snapped over the hoopla about the US election. This avoidance includes reading Blips for a few days: I'll catch up at the weekend. 

The election speculations, the polls analyses, and the saturation of even our media resulted in me shouting at the radio yesterday, turning it off with a determined flourish and getting on with real life.

I know this is an important election. I also know that it is not a New Zealand one. I feel sympathy for people in the US who are facing an uncertain result and an uncertain outcome. But I have no say in the matter and therefore no control over the outcomes. 

What will be will be, no matter how many opinion and exit polls are poured over and picked to pieces, and no matter how many Kiwi journalists are in the States to interview electors and politicians. I find their enjoyment and obsession with the election quite repellent. 

So I chose to keep my head down to get on with the small important things right in front of me. 

This morning's exam ran smoothly, with just a dozen candidates involved. It was a good dry-run for a much much bigger exam tomorrow, for which all hands will be on deck, and for which we will all need to be on our game.

This afternoon I've been happily hiding under my rock in the warm sunshine, listening to an audio book. What a treat to take the afternoon off!