Tonight felt nice. Nice to be putting in e-mail contacts to the sounds of a double-overtime thriller between Clemson and Notre Dame rather than the individuals using their video screens to analyze votes on the news networks. Nothing against any of them, they have done a remarkable job in their coverage of a super-tight presidential election and they can hopefully take some well-deserved time off soon. It just felt nice because it felt like a return to normal, whatever normal is these days. NBC did interrupt the football game to air remarks from Joseph R. Biden Jr. in which he laid out his hopes for a deeply-divided nation during his presidency. The former vice president had been declared the victor in his race with incumbent Donald Trump earlier in the day, setting off a wave of celebrations across the country and even around the world.
When I had a meeting a couple of weeks ago with the MBA student who will replace me at the ICC, he asked what I planned to do in the future. The honest answer I gave him was that my own personal future was something I try very, very hard not to think about. As it is, I live a rather charmed life compared to so many out there who worry about paying their bills or sending their kids off to school during a pandemic. I know, however, that things can change for me at any time and that is why I put in the work for almost four years on a Master in Business Administration. Now that I am less than a month away from finishing it, my approach will be to let the chips fall where they may. That may not sound like a winning strategy, but it is one that I believe fits me the best.