Election Day!
What better time to start blogging again but Election Day 2008? I would live blog the election results, except that I plan to head out on the town and drink copiously this evening.
Today I voted in person for the first time since I was 18. In the past elections I've either been volunteering or I've been living in Michigan and voting absentee in Missouri. I showed up at my polling place at 7:00 a.m., the time the polls opened, and there was already an enormous, enormous line. I left because I knew I couldn't get through the line and still make it to class. I returned at 11:30 and the line was about 1/3 as long as it had been, so that was a good call. It only took me about an hour to vote.
Here's a funny story - I had memorized the judges I planned to vote for before I headed to the polls. I decided to remember two of the options because they both had the initials "D.S." and I thought there was no possibility that any remaining candidates would also have those initials. But, the third candidate also, you guessed it, had the initials "D.S." So I was looking through my email on my iPhone looking for the information I had on the guy I meant to vote for. Sigh. Another lesson in not making assumptions.
Starbucks was giving away free coffee to all those with an "I voted" sticker. I went over there to check it out, but when I say that the line was as long as the one I stood in to vote, I left and paid a whole dollar for some coffee down the street at Espresso Royale. I'm not so much a fan of long lines.
Today I voted in person for the first time since I was 18. In the past elections I've either been volunteering or I've been living in Michigan and voting absentee in Missouri. I showed up at my polling place at 7:00 a.m., the time the polls opened, and there was already an enormous, enormous line. I left because I knew I couldn't get through the line and still make it to class. I returned at 11:30 and the line was about 1/3 as long as it had been, so that was a good call. It only took me about an hour to vote.
Here's a funny story - I had memorized the judges I planned to vote for before I headed to the polls. I decided to remember two of the options because they both had the initials "D.S." and I thought there was no possibility that any remaining candidates would also have those initials. But, the third candidate also, you guessed it, had the initials "D.S." So I was looking through my email on my iPhone looking for the information I had on the guy I meant to vote for. Sigh. Another lesson in not making assumptions.
Starbucks was giving away free coffee to all those with an "I voted" sticker. I went over there to check it out, but when I say that the line was as long as the one I stood in to vote, I left and paid a whole dollar for some coffee down the street at Espresso Royale. I'm not so much a fan of long lines.