TUESDAY DEAR GOD.

[minxy]

1. Vote. Vote. Vote vote vote vote vote vote vote vote. Vote if you got it.

2. Already voted, and spilled coffee on myself in the process. My polling place was pretty efficiently turning over the people at 7:30, I have to say. It was busy, but no lines. And can I just ask whether those flimsy little tables are seriously the best we can do? Seriously? Comical. Although not responsible for the coffee incident, so maybe the joke's on me.

3. I was in Oregon over the weekend, where I heard a steady stream of announcements that people had voted (Oregon is all vote-by-mail, and I miss that a little) until I ran into my friend who just moved up from California last month. "Well, I filled out my ballot," she said, "But I haven't sent it in yet. I guess I'll have to overnight it, right? I'll just have to find the nearest post office. Is there one?"

I think my eyes got a little wide as she babbled on.

So I voted twice today, because I carried my friend's absentee ballot back with me. California requires that votes be carried only by family or housemates, so I'm glad they didn't look too closely at the addresses. I mean, technically she did surf my couch for a little while...

4. Breaking the completely transparent silence on issues to say: I voted no on proposition 8. I voted and I put money behind it, and that's about as far as my little ostrich-political leanings can go as far as canvassing. I hope it was enough.

5. Vote. Vote. Vote vote vote vote vote vote vote vote. Vote if you got it.

5b. And then try to get some work done and pretend you aren't just biting your nails until the East Coast polls start to close.

Next (fannish) points do not require a cut tag, methinks.

6. Oh lord, there was an anonymous love meme at beanpot's while I was gone this weekend. I came back to find my name on the first page, and really nice things said, and it was warm fuzzies everywhere, guys. Thank you. I'm sorry I wasn't around to drop some love on y'all, but please consider yourselves LOVED.

7. My half-assed intention of using NaNoWriMo to finish the story I'm working on now hasn't materialized in any significant word count, but I think I have figured out what I want to include in the first part. That bit alone, before the AU moment, before the action even starts, I think that could be a significant story of it's own. I'm trying not to be freaked out about that (TEAL'C, I'm looking at you. Stop being so damn epic.)

8. Drink water. Exercise. Exercise your right to drink water and vote. (Sorry, it just slipped out.)

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5b. And then try to get some work done and pretend you aren't just biting your nails until the East Coast polls start to close.

Yeeeah. *eyes the two papers I'm working on warily*

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I knew there was a reason I couldn't take the time to cut my fingernails this morning. *gnaws*