So, I voted today. I had to vote at a different polling place than usual, since the community center was flooded in the hurricane. Having to go to a different place really made me anxious, partly because I was worried that things might be disorganized, but also just because it was a different place. I've been voting for 15 years and every other ( Read more... )

I woke up this morning feeling like crap. If I had some kind of quiet desk job, I would have gone to work, but the very thought of going in and out of the produce cooler feeling the way I did just made me feel even worse. So I called my boss and told I her wasn't coming in.

The upside to all this was that I was able to watch the Presidential  ( Read more... )

The candidate I voted for won! That has never happened to me before ( Read more... )

It went pretty smoothly for me, except that the woman who looked up me name so I could sign the book didn't listen to me when I spelled my name. My name is pronounced Cook, but is spelled Kuc. I spelled my name to her, said it aloud, then spelled it again, and she still looked in the C-section. And finds a Cook. Of course, that's not me, and I  ( Read more... )