I am a proud voter. Always have been. I have voted in almost every election I could have, in person or via absentee.
Well, today, I almost didn’t vote. Honestly, I didn’t know there was an election. I live in a smaller town right which lies adjacent to a bigger city (No not as big as NYC). The big city had an election for mayor. My smaller town (which is actually pretty big when all of the students are here) had a few city council seats up for grabs. When I was doing a little googling earlier to find out how I should vote, I kept thinking “Is it worth it?” I was tired after teaching earlier today and couldn’t imagine going out the door again to pull a lever/fill in some bubble/what have you.
But then I remembered how when I was 22, living in Brooklyn, working on my thesis (staying up ALL night), I made it to vote in the February presidential primary. Now, I wasn’t going to vote that day. I had decided against taking the long subway ride into the city to go to my home precinct and vote. It was best I stay in Brooklyn and work.
Of course, I stayed up all night working, and finally at around 7 AM I decided to go to bed. I couldn’t sleep. Suddenly my phone made a noise. It was my friend in Qns (who worked extraordinarily early hours) reminding me to vote. I think I called or texted her back. Anyway, I tried to sleep and COULD NOT! So, I got up, went to my favorite coffee shop and hopped on the train. THat’s when I realized that it was RUSH HOUR! It’s easy to forget about rush hour when you’re a student or work from home. I still forget about it here when I head out the door at 4:30 and am stuck in a mini traffic jam. Yes, I said 4:30. Yes, where do I live!?!?!?
Anyway, the point is I voted then. ON no sleep! I used to sleep every 36 hours then. No wonder, I have issues now. So if I could have voted then. I could walk out the door and vote today.
So I did and I got a sticker. My second. I heart voting!
whose commonality is the NYTimes
- Bat Mitzvah’s at age 90 Plus: My commentary on this could go on and on but I won’t for now…
- Integrating Obama into textbooks…THis article really point to the hesitancy of addressing changing history when it can be accesses so easily via the web.
Numerous updates as a tool of evasion for writing paper about migration and gender…
(And how did I not have a “religion” tag until today?)
HITS
- The speech
- The cute Obama girls
- Dan Quayle! (ok thats a joke!)
- watching Obama escort Bush out…AWESOME
- The amazing crowds
- The general feeling of excitement
MISSES
- Rick Warren
- Any Fox news coverage
So after the signs disappeared, we woke up the next morning to see a few back in their yards. One across the street looked suspiciously like ours. And the following morning, I saw that the house directly next to us and across from us now have Obama signs in their front yards when they didn’t before. They have been up for a few days now, so I guess those neighbors our Obama fans? However, our house and one across the street and down a few still have not had our signs returned to us. 
Surprisingly, the two McCain-Palin signs have not been messed with. Hmmm!
got stolen! WTF! So did everyone else’s on our block. This is why I didn’t want to put it out there.
We heard a bunch of drunk kids walks by outside around 2 AM when the bars close. I am sure it was some group of them who were up to no good. It is my hope of hopes they wanted the signs for themselves. Like they’re way into Obama and wanted some for them and were too drunk to realize they were um *stealing.* Husband informs me it is a misdemeanor.
OK, I know I am looking at this with rose colored glasses. They were probably conservative…but one can hope…RIGHT!
I keep hearing about how no one knew about Sarah Palin before her announcement as McCain’s running mate. While it is true Alaska is a “small” place in regards of population, many people may not need or think they need to know about it. However, I contend that is further proof that the general American population not only does not know enough about other countries (where is London on a map?), but needs to know MORE about its own country. Shouldn’t we know about the governor of every state?
I don’t think I know enough and I’m a fairly intelligent person.
Back to paper writing…!
