Title needed, omg

Why are so many powerful or influential organisations represented by words that in any other context describe mundane objects of furniture? The board, the panel, the chair, and of course, one must have as many seats as possible. I suppose that one makes a bit more literal sense.

I’m watching the BBC website to see the last 60 or so constituencies declare. I know the Cons will get the largest proportion of seats; I have made peace with that, sort of. There are a few rays of sunshine, however: my constituency in Brum stayed Labour, even though the Tories only needed a 2% swing to snag it back; the Greens have their first seat, in Brighton; the BNP doesn’t have any seats, and nor does UKIP; most of Brum is Lab/Lib, and delightfully one was even taken from the cons; Norwich South is Lib Dem; a Lib/Lab coalition would be just as successful a minority government as a Con one (very few seats’ difference); at time of writing, a Lib-Lab coalition will be larger than the Tory minority; and at time of writing, the Tories will still need the Libs in order to form a government, as long as the seat proportions stay roughly the same. The Libs are going to be important in one way or another during the coming parliament. Some seats are still estimated to be counting until this afternoon, so as the doctor told Ron Jeremy’s mother when she had her first ultrasound, “It’s going to be a long one.”

Our first week home is almost over, but thankfully it doesn’t feel like we’re nearly going back to Brum. I still haven’t had any time at home yet, and I’ve pretty much been counting down to that. Hopefully we’ll be having a Paranoia game this week – I shall be introducing Graeme to the world of role-play, although it’s about the most bizarre game I’ve heard of. It will make a worthy substitute for playing it on the Wednesdays I’m back here, though I am a little put out to be missing a VTM session on Sunday.

I’m going ahead with the thing I was thinking of doing but dithering about, thanks to some advice from Kirstin. Probably best not to describe it too overtly until more has been done/achieved, but watch this space.

It’s all kicking off now. I’m too excited.

Best be off! See you on the other side, reader(s)!