Willow ,'Same Time, Same Place'
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.
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.
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.
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!
There was a line at my polling place this morning. It took me about 40 minutes to vote.
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.
It's my plan as well. Until my office closes at 3 (thanks, Obama!) and I go somewhere they will.
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.
Americans! I'm off to bed now. Try not to elect anyone before I wake up. Have fun storming the castle!
Try not to elect anyone before I wake up.
You don't let us have any fun.
The last thing DH said to me as he left for work: "Don't do anything to embarrass the Democratic Party today!"