My sister.
Natter 70: Hookers and Blow
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.
I vote at the library branch, in the room off the children's area. Which is a little weird, since the fire house is closer to my house (although only by about 50 yards).
We vote at the CRC College Hill rec center (which is where I work out). So voting is really an exercise in dodging kids in the afterschool program and avoiding Zumba enthusiasts and trying to ignore the smell of the fries from the snack bar.
My oldest younger sister, for sure.
My mom, probably. Mostly quotes from comedians and Hill Street Blues.
I have 2.5 people I can pass the broccoli test with--sister, Vancouver best friend, and Colin is bringing up the rear.
Which person do you share the most inside jokes with?
My BFF.
My sister or my BFF, though the roommate is rapidly gaining ground.
Inside jokes is definitely the SO, although there are a couple of other close friends who would rank pretty far up there. It has to do not only with proximity, but with propensity for inside jokes. My mother, for example, would be great at it, but inside jokes are just not something she does.
Voting: I miss going to the Navajo chapter house for my polling place. But my current polling place is almost as picturesque. It's the little community center, where we have the booth that serves as our post office, and the honor system lending library. I could totally walk the dog over to the polling place, leash him to the stand outside (complete with dog water bowl), vote, and be in and out in about ten minutes.
I'm an undecided voter, but all y'all won't like my choices: Gary Johnson or Jill Stein. And I suspect it'll end up libertarian this time, because he's not that bad on the social issues. But seriously, I have been voting peace candidates since we got into these fucking wars, and so far? Still in the fucking wars. I know this is not the way you guys work, what with wanting your candidates to possibly win, and all, but I really believe that you have to keep voting who you actually want to win. That the eventual success of third parties, and therefore the nation (because the polarizing nature of a two party system is seriously destructive at this point) depends on people voting third party when they agree with that candidate, regardless of "chances to win." But I'm an idealist, and I understand that.
And I no longer believe that Obama can or will get us out of the wars or return us habeas corpus. I truly believe everything hinges on it. (Well, and campaign finance reform, but I'm never going to get that, so.) Budget, economy, foreign relations. And that if we could significantly change our military policies that we'd have more funding to deal with the domestic issues, health, education, infrastructure. (I would also like to note that if we had instituted my health care plan when I started talking about it (i.e., subsidized science and math education from elementary through college, followed by obligations to serve in low-cost clinics through career start) those kids would now be getting ready to graduate, and we'd be another term or two away from a phalanx of well-educated physicians to staff low-cost clinics, plus stronger schools overall, and also good candidates for other fields like engineers and whatnot (similar programs could go for infrastructure and civil engineering projects).)
My town is super heavily active Mormon, though, so it probably doesn't matter for me. Like, Mafia levels of town running: you can't get good jobs if you're not Mormon, you get poorer service if you're not Mormon.
Probably my sister, I guess.
KQED has a voter's guide as well; I keep planning to download it and take a look.