Thank goodness this election turned into a crisis.

Because both Chris Matthews and Dan Abrams round the clock is like a dream come true.

The rain is thickly visible in these sideways silver sheets and I think to myself, "what an unlucky day to be at work without a lunch."

So I sit. Hungry.

I know I should write something about the election, but the pictures of Florida that my brain catalogued almost fifteen years ago keep getting in the way: stucco roadside motels the color of butter and everywhere (everywhere!) telephone lines and trash curled up in the crevices created between roads and sidewalks. Everything looks like a digital image with the contrast turned up too high. And though I digest huge portions of CNN and MSNBC and wake suddenly to a general unsettled feeling in my blood, I'm stuck on these images.

Coupland's words drum inside my brain, "I don't think Florida is where you go if you want to reinvent yourself. I think it's where you go when you no longer want to be found."

But now this election anomaly is impressing new images and new ideas about Florida into my consciousness. Into my catalogue.

And I wonder how long they will last.

A claw-foot bathtub.

It's funny how you can pinpoint the most arbitrary thing that makes someone else's apartment, with papers and underwear and makeup strewn all about, your very own perfect place.

How when you visit other larger apartments, with more windows and hardwood floors, you take one look at their cheap, shallow blue bathtubs and know that you couldn't possibly live there for even one minute.

In my current apartment, it was the expertly tiled kitchen floor. And the dimmer-switched lights.

And at 2223 Hall Place, it was that perfect claw-foot bathtub. Tears nearly welled in my eyes as I rounded the corner. Laine checked for hydraulic-like water pressure as I just stood and worshipped from the doorway.

And in a city five hundred miles away from almost all my belongings and everything and everyone familiar, I knew that I was home.

Where are you moving to?