Tuesday, November 04, 2008

I Voted!

Today was finally the day to vote. At least for me, as I know friends in other states got their ballots by mail already. I personally love going to the elementary school gymnasium where I cast my ballot. The sweet old ladies who check my address and the dapper elderly gent who hands me my ballot are the same people I see every time I go.

Voting in my town means connecting two brackets with a Sharpie marker drawn line. It’s not so much civic duty as art and crafts time! If I manage to walk out of the booth with no black marker all over my hands it’s a victory. This is no easy task for a lefty who smudges ball point pen when writing.

This time it really seemed important to get out and vote. Even though I am not in a swing state, I feel that after these last 8 years of having my personal rights stamped on by an administration that forgot all about the people of this country while engaged in their own selfish self-interests, I needed my vote counted.

So tonight, I am trying to avoid the pundits and their ceaseless conjecture about who is winning before the results are in. I am gorging myself on the visually beautiful Mad Men as I work through the pile from Netflix on my coffee table. And when I am done, I hope we have a new president!

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