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Nov. 4th, 2008 07:51 amI got my vote on.
I got there before 7am and there was a yooge line. A woman who lives across the street from the polling station said that her husband checked at 6am and there were ten people. She thought, "great I have time to get dressed and feed my baby. Then my baby wanted waffles for breakfast." I got some knitting done while waiting. Everyone was very cheerful and chatty. I am not entirely surprised there was a large line because when we had the caucus waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back at the beginning of the year, there were soooooooooooo many people there that we violated fire codes. Sure there is absentee voting but obviously my district likes going to the polls. (we are an incredibly diverse precinct that covers working class, people living in public housing and people who could make Forbes for what they bring in each year. Black, white, immigrant, old school and everyone in between. It is like a coke commercial of diversity)
The poll workers were very helpful and cheerful too. Pretty much it was a total party. People brought their kids. There was a guy with his seven year old daughter and he was so sweet and awesome with her that I think I ovulated. (Good dads always make me ovulate. hah) I saw this very old couple voting together in one booth, new citizens voting for the first time and young folk participating in their first election. I realize what took so long to vote is filling in circles. We still rock the paper ballot in these parts and you have to fill in these litle circles and you have to be thorough so that Scantron can count the vote. All those kindergarten skills come into play. So you have all these people carefully filling in the circles with great concentration. Not to mention there were all these extra things on the ballot for our county. I had a hand cramp when I was done. Yes indeed it was fun. If you voted, you could get a free babycake from Cupcake Royale. It is a day of freebies if you vote. But I think Seattle trumps everyone else because Babeland is offering free sex toys if you vote. coffee, sugar and masturbation!
There are details that were 'so Seattle'. It was raining hard this morning. It has been raining hard all night. It is November and in November it rains and rains and then rains even more. (we usually get flooding about this time of year) hard-core Seattle people don't even bring umbrellas. So the line was filled with damp-haired people. But those who brought them leave them leaning to one side on one side of the hallway. So you get a line of half-open umbrellas littering the place.
All right now that that task has been I have cookies to bake today. And I am refining a tuscan bean soup I am making.
Did I mention my son had me up at 5:30 am?
Yeah. Well he did.
His saving grace was that he was very adorable. He has also decided that he doesn't want to wear trousers but he wants to wear shoes. He decided this at 6am. We may have to discuss this.
I got there before 7am and there was a yooge line. A woman who lives across the street from the polling station said that her husband checked at 6am and there were ten people. She thought, "great I have time to get dressed and feed my baby. Then my baby wanted waffles for breakfast." I got some knitting done while waiting. Everyone was very cheerful and chatty. I am not entirely surprised there was a large line because when we had the caucus waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back at the beginning of the year, there were soooooooooooo many people there that we violated fire codes. Sure there is absentee voting but obviously my district likes going to the polls. (we are an incredibly diverse precinct that covers working class, people living in public housing and people who could make Forbes for what they bring in each year. Black, white, immigrant, old school and everyone in between. It is like a coke commercial of diversity)
The poll workers were very helpful and cheerful too. Pretty much it was a total party. People brought their kids. There was a guy with his seven year old daughter and he was so sweet and awesome with her that I think I ovulated. (Good dads always make me ovulate. hah) I saw this very old couple voting together in one booth, new citizens voting for the first time and young folk participating in their first election. I realize what took so long to vote is filling in circles. We still rock the paper ballot in these parts and you have to fill in these litle circles and you have to be thorough so that Scantron can count the vote. All those kindergarten skills come into play. So you have all these people carefully filling in the circles with great concentration. Not to mention there were all these extra things on the ballot for our county. I had a hand cramp when I was done. Yes indeed it was fun. If you voted, you could get a free babycake from Cupcake Royale. It is a day of freebies if you vote. But I think Seattle trumps everyone else because Babeland is offering free sex toys if you vote. coffee, sugar and masturbation!
There are details that were 'so Seattle'. It was raining hard this morning. It has been raining hard all night. It is November and in November it rains and rains and then rains even more. (we usually get flooding about this time of year) hard-core Seattle people don't even bring umbrellas. So the line was filled with damp-haired people. But those who brought them leave them leaning to one side on one side of the hallway. So you get a line of half-open umbrellas littering the place.
All right now that that task has been I have cookies to bake today. And I am refining a tuscan bean soup I am making.
Did I mention my son had me up at 5:30 am?
Yeah. Well he did.
His saving grace was that he was very adorable. He has also decided that he doesn't want to wear trousers but he wants to wear shoes. He decided this at 6am. We may have to discuss this.
