Ork! Woke up this morning and Shakepeare the cat was hissing, yowling, and limping, so first thing after we wake up, we load up and get to the animal hospital. He’s fine, our little furball just sprained his ankle and knee, so they doped him up, charged us hundreds of dollars for exam and x-ray, and sent us both on our way. PS I think the vet’s digital x-ray equipment is better and faster than any x-rays I’ve ever been given.
We voted in Southern California. Our polling place had no line at 2 PM. Two of the volunteers were high school girls with big hair serving community service hours for a DUI. I know this because they were complaining loudly about it while I tried to make decisions about Veteren’s funds and Animal rights (for, and for.) The other two poll vounteers were very nice older ladies. I’m pretty sure they weren’t in for DUI community service, anyway, but you never know. There were no machines, no curtains, just little boxes on top of music stand-type things with old-fashioned paper ballots. I like those better, anyway. They remind me of the SATs.
I’m hoping for no more excitement. Oh, and our cable went out, just as I sat down to get an election update. Good times.
And oh yeah, go see this:
http://mfrost.typepad.com/cute_overload/2008/11/vote-vote-vote.html

Jeannine Hall Gailey served as the second Poet Laureate of Redmond, Washington and the author of Becoming the Villainess, She Returns to the Floating World, Unexplained Fevers, The Robot Scientist’s Daughter, and winner of the Moon City Press Book Prize and SFPA’s Elgin Award, Field Guide to the End of the World. Her latest, Flare, Corona from BOA Editions, was a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. She’s also the author of PR for Poets, a Guidebook to Publicity and Marketing. Her work has been featured on NPR’s The Writer’s Almanac, Verse Daily and The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror. Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Poetry, and JAMA.



Collin Kelley
Obama won! Yay!
Prop 8 passed. Bastards.
jeannine
I know. Everybody talks about how liberal California is, but I don’t think it is as liberal as Washington State. And don’t even get me started about how people in a drought in a desert are constantly watering their lawns…