Poll Reading

[sartorias]

Well, my flist is full of everybody exhorting everybody else to vote, and I say everybody because even the non-USAns are reminding USAns they should get out and vote

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[mastadge]

Courageous Resistance: The Power of Ordinary People

[sartorias]

Sounds good!

[paragraphs]

I voted last week while Nick was still here--took my German to vote! Although...I was second in line. LOL. So no drama there. Still, it was good, very good, to do. My daughter, 19, was SO proud to have voted! Even though she knows the color of our state is not the one she has chosen, she was proud to have her say. *beams* All her friends were/are excited about participating--that is a good thing. I sure never felt the fire before this election.

[sartorias]

Yeah, this one has been a long and anxious one, for a number of reasons.

[skogkatt]

We got there after the big morning rush. At 8:30 we didn't have to wait at all. I've been reading Grimm though.

[sartorias]

Auf Deutsch, or in translation, and what do you think?

[skogkatt]

Both. Auf Deutsch when I have a few brain cells still working, in translation when I am too tired for anything strenuous. I find fairy tales endlessly fascinating. I often find myself thinking, "Well, this could make sense, if one furnishes the necessary details, but the story as presented seems to contradict them." I think Hans my hedgehog might end up making an appearance in my current wip. He's such an odd creature.

[sartorias]

I never much liked the stories themselves, but teasing out customs and cultural clues makes them endlessly fascinating. I remember as a grade school kid thinking that fairy tales not only had rotten endings (that would be Hans Christian Andersen, who I mixed up with Grimm et al) but they didn't make sense, like, a kingdom that comprises a single castle and a border on the other side of a small forest? Then I when I was reading German history, there was this mental lock as the puzzle pieces clicked into place, and I realized I was looking at a historical paradigm through story, and that's when I became intently interested in Maerchen.

[stephan_laurent]

My voting line at the State Fairgrounds in Indianapolis was really short, so no reading. But what I'm into now is re-reading Kim Stanley Robinson's climate-thriller trilogy (Forty Signs of Rain, Fifty Degrees Below, and the one I'm finishing now, Sixty Days And Counting). Appropriate for the time, since KSR postulates the election of a progressive President (Senator Phil Chase) in the midst of a catastrophic climate change event. Great book.

[sartorias]

I remember that about the predictions, from the reviews!

[eegatland]

I voted by absentee ballot about a month ago. So today I am just glued to the internet. I can't really make myself focus on anything else!

[sartorias]

As soon as the news junky spouse and daughter waken, I'll be bombarded with various TV channels yammering alllllll day.....

[eegatland]

I suppose it's a bit of an advantage that things won't hot up here till after 11 p.m.