The best metaphors for what it’s like to await the US election results

It’s hard to know what to do with ourselves as the world awaits the results of the US presidential election. One way to pass the time is to come up with metaphors and similes about how it feels to stand by, filled with anxiety about the outcome but powerless to influence it one way or another. Americans, after all, have already decided whether the next president will be Donald Trump or Joe Biden. It’s just going to take a while to count the ballots.

Perhaps this moment is a bit like watching a supernova thousands of lightyears away, as software engineer Jacob Harris suggested:

https://twitter.com/harrisj/status/1324009050758139905

Read the rest of this story on qz.com. Become a member to get unlimited access to Quartz’s journalism.