A coworker who never calls in sick has called in sick with a nasty cold and now I'm paranoid that this lingering off-ness is not just from the whiplash of the weather change and mucking about with leaves the other night.
Natter 72: We Were Unprepared for This
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.
at this point my tagline should be because beer, yum Oktoberfest and fall specials.
As a city employee, I get the day off of work today! Be jealous of me! I’m going to go and vote, just as soon as I finish another cup of tea.
Scola, you could come to the reading tonight! Or, not! Either way I wave in your direction.
I can't figure out if I am supposed to vote today, and if so, on what. I guess I will swing by City Hall after work and see what's going on.
I need to look up the items on the ballot. There are State Constitutions things that I am sure are too confusing to really understand in the voting booth.
I highly recommend vote411 - you can look at all the races and propositions in your area and print out a ballot of how you want to vote: [link]
My students have a midterm today, which means the only way I could vote would be to wake up really early, and I didn't feel like doing that for a ballot that's almost entirely uncontested local races.
I get to do crazy proportional representation voting for the one and only time today! I probably won't rank all 25 candidates for City Council, but I'll do a bunch of them. And I only have a recommendation on one person running for School Committee, so I may just vote for her and leave it at that.
Latest word on the mall shooting seems to be failed suicide by cop -- he went into the mall and started shooting, but by most witness accounts, deliberately did not aim at anyone, trying to goad the police into shooting him. And when that didn't work, he shot himself.