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!"
Oh, lordy. My doctor has me off booze until at least December. I'm really gonna miss it tonight.
Calli, I gave up booze for a month a few years back and it was surprisingly easy. I was still going to bars on a regular basis. Giving up chocolate for Lent is much harder.
