Do I wish I was somebody else right now. Somebody not... married, not madly in love with a beautiful woman who can kill me with her pinkie!

Wash ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'


Natter 56: ...we need the writers.  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


lisah - Feb 12, 2008 7:52:56 am PST #8995 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate

I still think of this place as a safe-ish space, but it is most definitely not as private (or as safe) as we seem to think it is. Trust me.

But I know how many hits I normally get from stuff I link here at least and can look at my stats and see how many people visited a picture because it was linked here.


Matt the Bruins fan - Feb 12, 2008 7:56:37 am PST #8996 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand

Happy Birthday Krtistin and Maria!

I woke up this morning to discover that my roof has a leak. Not a bad one, total water presence on my kitchen floor probably amounted to a spilled juice glass. But still irksome.


brenda m - Feb 12, 2008 7:59:13 am PST #8997 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

So is everyone voting today who can? I hate when I don't get to vote.

Have people been following the discussion about caucuses v primaries among the campaigns? I've never lived anywhere that caucused, which seems kind of cool. Today's are all regular primaries, though, as far as I know.

However, it occured to me recently that the arguments about caucusing are Exactly The Same as our Gang of Fourteen debates. Which no doubt explains a) why I find them so appealing and b) why they really probably aren't fair. Ha! We are so far ahead of the game. They should hire us on as consultants.


lisah - Feb 12, 2008 8:03:07 am PST #8998 of 10001
Punishingly Intricate

I voted but I did not get a sticker. Again. There weren't as many people as I thought there might be at my polling place (at 8:30 am). I only saw about 5 altogether. And I knew 2 of them.


hippocampus - Feb 12, 2008 8:04:00 am PST #8999 of 10001
not your mom's socks.

People. They mess stuff up for the rest of us.

loves this.


Ginger - Feb 12, 2008 8:06:09 am PST #9000 of 10001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

After that, I just kept looking at my watch and wishing that they had better beer.

This describes so much of my life.


sarameg - Feb 12, 2008 8:14:17 am PST #9001 of 10001

My polling place has never had stickers. There was no line at 9. I'm trying to think when there has been a line...Evenings during the presidential vote, I guess. Or maybe back when we had the big curtained booths. They'd only have 2 of those /precinct, but now have 5 or 6 of the carrel types. And since they no longer mark me off on the paper voter list, I can't tell how many people voted before me!


brenda m - Feb 12, 2008 8:20:41 am PST #9002 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there

I can't tell how many people voted before me!

Oh, that was the best thing about the scantron machines at my old polling place.


Scrappy - Feb 12, 2008 8:24:23 am PST #9003 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

My 79-year-old mom is volunteering for Obama at the polls in Northern Virginia today.


meara - Feb 12, 2008 8:31:14 am PST #9004 of 10001

This (WA) is the first place I've lived with caucusing. I did not caucus. There's been a lot of discussion of the fairness of caucusing vs. the community aspect of it, etc. And it lets you get persuaded! Except most people who show up aren't persuadable. And someone was like "Dude, walk up and down the (big commercial) street over there and there are TONS of people who have to work during this caucus, how is that fair?", which I think is very true. It requires more effort and enthusiasm, to caucus. But I have to admit, it is kinda cool.