“I believe there is power in words, power in asserting our existence, our experience, our lives, through words.”
— Jesmyn Ward, The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks about Race (2016)
4am in Vegas
So now, here I am at 4:00 am now officially glued to CNN and the projections. No matter how hard I tried, I simply could not fall back asleep and had a feeling that I was going to need a strong coffee to get me through the day. I had also decided on another whim that I wanted to extend my time in Vegas and forfeit my original plans of being in Los Angeles on Friday so that meant I had to switch hotels. I was exhausted but on adrenaline, because I felt like things were finally starting to happen.