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[the_rck]

I filled out my absentee ballot last night. I found a site called annarborvotes.org that had profiles of all of the candidates for local elections. It wasn’t useful for the partisan part of the ballot because all the local candidates were running unopposed as Democrats (the real election for those offices is the primary). It was extremely useful for the community college board, the library board, and the school board. I don’t know that any of my choices will win because I’m not sure that my priorities are the same as other people’s. For example, for the community college board, I voted for people who I thought came from backgrounds where they or their children might actually have used the community college rather than for all of the folks emphasizing business development experience.

I was mentally awake all day yesterday, but I was still pretty physically wiped out. I don’t know how that’s going to go today yet because I’ve only been up since 11:00. I have to finish the grocery list, and I have to shower. I’m not sure what else I’ll do— Probably some writing. I’m managing a few hundred words a day right now, just not on my Yuletide story yet.

I have a lot of DVDs to watch this week, but I don’t know that I will because Scott will be home. When he is, he plays stuff on his computer constantly. If he’s in the dining room, I can watch/listen to something while he does his thing, but if we’re both in the living room, it doesn’t work at all. I don’t think I can get him interested in watching Murder She Wrote with me. I’ve got four DVDs of that left, it’s due a week from tomorrow, and it can’t be renewed.

I’ve got one book due tomorrow that can’t be renewed and one due tomorrow that I’ve already renewed twice. I just can’t seem to focus enough to read. It’s very frustrating.

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[brunettepet.livejournal.com]

It's too bad you can't focus enough to read while Scott is playing computer games.

[the_rck]

It would be nice if I could manage it. I'll try. I've got a lot of library books, and being able to return some would be nice.

It's not just games, though. He streams video a lot. He loves people's reaction videos to just about anything that he likes. He plays The Daily Show and Last Week Tonight and... Oh, and doesn't notice when he replays a clip that he played an hour earlier.

[nucleosides.livejournal.com]

Yay for absentee ballots!

(I'll probably go down to the fire station like I did last election day and vote there myself.)

[the_rck]

I vote in person at elections that aren't likely to have long lines. Long lines mean that my anxiety goes through the roof and that the process of voting will leave me pretty much wrecked, physically. I could probably do it, if everything went just right, but when does that happen? And, if something didn't go right, I might not be able to do the household stuff that needs doing.

The absentee ballot is plastered with warnings about not showing it to anyone or talking about it with people or letting other people touch it at all. There's an entire extra set of forms to fill out if the person voting is of sound mind but can't, for whatever reason, fill out the ballot themselves.

I did show my thirteen year old my ballot because she didn't remember ever seeing one. I explained the different ways to fill one out. She's five years from voting herself.