Super Tuesday Tomorrow
I am so hating the jackasses that run the elections in California right now. They only sent out one information booklet per household for the primary, even though there are all sorts of other things to vote on other than who gets to represent each party in the upcoming presidential election. This is especially problematic for me, as I don't live where I'm registered to vote anymore, and my dad has a tendency to be possessive of anything that's addressed to the whole household. However, I have found a solution to this: Smart Voter (dot) org. They've provided me with a list of what's going to be on my ballot (a whole hell of a lot more than the "official" information paperwork has done me this time). I'll probably start by skimming through their information on each thing I'm voting on, then I'll fact check via Google. This will likely take up the rest of my time today.
Tomorrow is going to prove interesting, as I'm scheduled to work 11a to 7p. Polls are open from butt crack of dawn to an hour after I'm supposed to be off work. I am going to attempt to get up early enough to hit the polls on the way to work, and if I'm lucky, most people won't be voting between ten and ten-thirty in the morning, and I'll be in and out quickly. If I don't get moving early enough, or it's actually busy when I swing past, I'll likely go after I get off work. I know, legally speaking, I'm supposed to be able to vote, no matter how late, as long as I'm in line before the polls close. When dictator shrub stole the last presidential, I heard crap about people getting turned away illegally, so I'm skeptical of how easily this will be to do. I know I'm likely paranoid, because my polling place is in an unincorporated area that's mostly older retired people and stupid yuppies with a mix of hicks thrown in for flavor. Problems aren't likely to arise that'll keep a twenty-something white chic from voting, especially if I'm spitting venom towards that bitch Hillary. Just in case, I'm tucking into my cell phone the Obama campaign's Election Protection hotline numbers they just sent out in an email. There's one in the 415 and one in the 510 area codes, and both are programmed in there. It confuses me that the 510 is labeled SF and the 415 is labeled east bay, but since I'd be calling from a cell phone, it's no big and I can attempt both if needed. Likely I won't need 'em, but better to have said information than to not.
The plan is to also bring The Confusion with me to read, as I'm within the last 200 pages of the book, and due to it's phone book-like size, it will easily serve as self defense weapon should the need arise. Granted, it's a first printing, and I would be sad if it got blood on it, or was damaged in any other way, but *shrugs* it's a good read, and I'd like to finish it again so I can move onto System of the World and go and finish off with Cryptonomicon, so I can move onto new books once more.