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.
And boys -- let's watch the swearing.
Mayor ,'Chosen'
Natter 61*
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.
Jesse - Nov 04, 2008 2:24:38 am PST #8315 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
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.
billytea - Nov 04, 2008 2:41:16 am PST #8321 of 10001
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
Americans! I'm off to bed now. Try not to elect anyone before I wake up. Have fun storming the castle!
amych - Nov 04, 2008 2:52:03 am PST #8322 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Try not to elect anyone before I wake up.
You don't let us have any fun.
Cashmere - Nov 04, 2008 3:11:53 am PST #8323 of 10001
Now tagless for your comfort.
The last thing DH said to me as he left for work: "Don't do anything to embarrass the Democratic Party today!"
Calli - Nov 04, 2008 3:13:19 am PST #8324 of 10001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Oh, lordy. My doctor has me off booze until at least December. I'm really gonna miss it tonight.