Sad Tree

this "Championship Tree" is so depressing. my roommates and i thought maybe it had been done by some amateur or something, but no. it's official. it's embarrassing and pitiable. D:

the ball isn't round, the fingers are too small. the whole limb is misshapen. but there it stands at the corner of franklin and columbia, and i guess visitors to the town will walk by and scratch their heads and wonder whether it's officially sanctioned or not; and if it is, whether it's SUPPOSED to be all disproportionate and sad, and charitably they will say, "yes, it was probably supposed to look sort of cartoony like that. right?"

election

election
Last night in Chapel Hill, there was an air of festivity. At the Station in Carrboro, people stood mashed up against each other, no room to move. We waited at the door at first, and from the depths of the crowd came a yell—ohio had just gone blue. I figured Station was a happening place, being a sort-of new bar and being in Carrboro on election night.

But we went to Top of the Hill and it was crowded, too and people were paying more rapt attention to CNN than those at Station. The whole thing felt like watching the Heels in a national championship game.

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