My puppycam is frozen. Feh.

I had a dream the other night that I went back to Delaware to vote because they had early voting and it was considered to be a swing state. My polling place was the Concord Mall (where my friends & I hung out in highschool) and the line went down 202 about 3 miles. I was talking to people at the end of the line and they were all voting for Obama so I decided I could vote in Maryland instead.

Hee! Mine would have been Christiana Mall. A swing state - I love it! I think I am going to treat myself to lunch at the Charcoal Pit after I vote (not the One True Charcoal Pit, though - I have a closer one now.)

The construction crews working on rennovating the building next door started jackhammering against our shared wall before 8 am this morning. There's just no better way to wake up than with your bedroom walls vibrating hard enough to rattle the picture frames.

Since the noise of their power tools inspired the idiot yippy dog downstairs to bark continuously for the full 90 minutes before I left for work this morning, I do at least hold out some hope that it will lose its voice by the time I get home tonight.

Nathan Bedford Forest? Jeez. It's not like it's even someone where they had to dig for unknown skeletons in the closet. That is so fucking wrong.

Hee! Mine would have been Christiana Mall.

Aw, you guys are making me all nostalgic. Also? Charcoal Pit! One day, Jen, you and me. Mmmm.

I had a chance to vote for Rob Sherman (probably the most famous atheist in the country) for state representative, but I declined.

The View From Your Election: Dartmouth College

A reader writes to Sullivan:

Those who are wondering if the youth will turn out ought to see what I saw this morning.

One well-known government professor here told me that she has never seen so many students vote in the first hour of voting as she saw this morning. And I've never seen so many students up and alert at this hour. They're normally stumbling out of bed to make it to their 10 a.m. courses. Today, the campus has been buzzing for hours this morning. It appears that many of them decided to go to the polls as groups of twos, threes, fours and more when the polls opened at 7 a.m. The number of students I saw by 8 a.m. walking around with "I voted" stickers on is astonishing.

At breakfast, I sat next to a table of four black students, all of whom had voted. The three men were wearing ties. I asked them why. The answer: It was their first election, and they wanted to mark the occasion.

I've been amazed at how many kids had shouted pro-Obama things to me these last few months....

Grace enjoys jumping in her crib: [link]

I swear, this isn't like shaken baby.

I think I am going to treat myself to lunch at the Charcoal Pit after I vote (not the One True Charcoal Pit, though - I have a closer one now.)

LUCKY! That's where I had lunch on my birthday! At the One True.

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OK - The VA fraud fliers and emails PISS ME OFF SO MUCH - No charges PISSES ME OFF EVEN MORE. This is the email for the Informational Officer of the VA State Police: questions@vsp.virginia.gov.

This is a NATIONAL ISSUE, so everyone in the country has a valid reason to email them demanding that charges be pressed. If you know people in VA, think about emailing them to voice outrage. If you have a blog that gets readers, maybe post the email also. The phone number in case you want to file a complaint that way is: Phone: (804) 674-2000