I’m not even American and absolutely caught up with all the election talk. I don’t know how anyone in the States is billing today lol.

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We aren’t. At all.

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Or we’ve deleted all our news and social media apps and are working into the evening to avoid all of it 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Slowly lol. Constantly turning off the timer.

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Spent the day volunteering! Haven’t responded to any emails and haven’t billed a thing!

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I gave up at 6pm. No point faking it.

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Had to schedule conference calls all day to keep my mind off the election!

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Was harder today than yesterday with meaningful results finally trickling in

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