Thank you, America.

Someday, when they ask, "Where were you when Obama got elected?" I'll say I was at work, refreshing Google News and the Guardian Liveblog every 30 minutes 20 minutes 10 minutes, watching the numbers roll in and hanging on the edge of hope. When they called it for him at 3 PM, I joined everyone else at the TV - where only yesterday we were gathered for the Melbourne Cup - to watch McCain's generous concession speech and Obama's stirring victory speech. It was well over an hour later that we all returned to our desks and the emails and phone calls started to fly. I'm still in a daze.

Today I didn't get much work done, but I think I witnessed history in the making.