By the skin of my teeth!
Nov. 6th, 2012 04:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
superbadgirlArgh. After interview (which I think went well), I schlepped to the county clerk's office to pick up a ballot only to find out they couldn't give me one. By the time I clued in that my DMV voter's registration didn't actually register me for squat, I missed the registration deadline when I went in and actually registered. :(
So, I raced home, called the number on my prior state of residence's mail-in ballot and asked if I could submit that one, given circumstances. Answer: yes!
I then had to remember all the things to vote for in that state, filled it out quickly and hauled Dixie to the post office, where the lady behind the counter looked mightily unimpressed with me as I iterated twice in a row that it had to be postmarked today. LOL.
But it's out of my hands now. I voted. I did my duty. I also have managed to avoid calling my ultra conservative friend a fool, as she's in the perfect demographic that votes Republican despite that party doing NOTHING for them except pretend to care about babies. I always want to say that Republicans only care about life before it's life, and when that all-important fetus is out there in the world, they could not care less and, in fact, would consistently vote to cut programs and resources in place to help that very life they fought so hard to get out of the womb, citing bootstraps and socialism. Bah!
Also, I cut four inches off my hair. It was such a relief.
So, I raced home, called the number on my prior state of residence's mail-in ballot and asked if I could submit that one, given circumstances. Answer: yes!
I then had to remember all the things to vote for in that state, filled it out quickly and hauled Dixie to the post office, where the lady behind the counter looked mightily unimpressed with me as I iterated twice in a row that it had to be postmarked today. LOL.
But it's out of my hands now. I voted. I did my duty. I also have managed to avoid calling my ultra conservative friend a fool, as she's in the perfect demographic that votes Republican despite that party doing NOTHING for them except pretend to care about babies. I always want to say that Republicans only care about life before it's life, and when that all-important fetus is out there in the world, they could not care less and, in fact, would consistently vote to cut programs and resources in place to help that very life they fought so hard to get out of the womb, citing bootstraps and socialism. Bah!
Also, I cut four inches off my hair. It was such a relief.
