"High in the lower 70s"? WTF?
Who died and made you Elvis?
Cordelia ,'Storyteller'
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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.
tommyrot - Nov 04, 2008 1:58:12 am PST #8311 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Laura - Nov 04, 2008 2:05:25 am PST #8312 of 10001
Our wings are not tired.
Great voting weather! I was looking at the weather in various regions last night in my obsessing. Rainy in NC and VA.
DH is in the voting line now. He knew Obama went to Harvard. The lack of knowledge on the part of otherwise intelligent people always surprises me. You would think I would know better by now.
brenda m - Nov 04, 2008 2:08:24 am PST #8313 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
"High in the lower 70s"? WTF?
A normal day in May?
Anne W. - Nov 04, 2008 2:12:35 am PST #8314 of 10001
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
It's going to be a gorgeous day here today. I'm taking off from work a little early today, and will be going to vote at about 3pm my time.
Right now, I'm debating if I want to watch the election returns or not. I probably will, since I don't seem to be able to keep from checking the news all the freaking time as it is.
Jesse - Nov 04, 2008 2:24:38 am PST #8315 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I got up a little early, so I guess I'll swing by my polling place and see if there's a line. I hope there is, and I have to go back after work! When there will definitely be more people, but I will have more time.
JZ - Nov 04, 2008 2:28:23 am PST #8316 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
java, that's deeply boggling.
I need to go back to bed; I'm precinct walking from 8 to 8 today for both the Democratic party and No on 8, and I want to get in line at my polling place as close to 6:30 as possible. But I've been coughing and snotting with raging allergies, so I'm out here trying to spare Hec and Matilda the misery of listening to me all night.
Sadly, our car is still in the shop, so I can't do the giving-people-rides-to-the-polls thing I'd originally volunteered for; happily, my carlessness increases the chances they'll just have me precinct walk my own neighborhood. Which, also pleasingly, contains several Starbucks and is just a few blocks from a Ben & Jerry's.
I didn't do any election-day volunteer work in 1992, and the stress and craziness of the entire day (and heartbreak of the evening) was just Too Much. I'm out walking and knocking on doors all day, I'm not hovering over cnn.com and fivethirtyeight.com obsessively clicking refresh and driving myself mad, mad I tell you!
Tom Scola - Nov 04, 2008 2:33:00 am PST #8317 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
There was a line at my polling place this morning. It took me about 40 minutes to vote.
Steph L. - Nov 04, 2008 2:35:09 am PST #8318 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
I'm not hovering over cnn.com and fivethirtyeight.com obsessively clicking refresh and driving myself mad, mad I tell you!
See, this? Is my plan. Only because they won't let us drink booze at work.
brenda m - Nov 04, 2008 2:38:08 am PST #8319 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
It's my plan as well. Until my office closes at 3 (thanks, Obama!) and I go somewhere they will.
Theodosia - Nov 04, 2008 2:39:49 am PST #8320 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
I'll vote after I get home from class, so in the 1 or 2 pm range when I figure the polling place will be the least busy. Still, it's great to go in the early morning or late night when it's busiest and say hello to neighbors, and see fellow citizens participating enthusiastically in the democratic process.
Somerville is set up so that you can walk to your polling place easily -- there's an advantage to being one of the most densely packed cities in the world.