I hope that before you kill time reading this today, you went and voted. I did. I voted before lunch. Well, actually, I voted before what would be lunch to anyone else, since most people eat their lunch between, say, 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. I am not most people; most people did not, today, have to get up extra early -- 6 a.m. -- and then did not have to drive to court an hour and a half away, and then most people did not find themselves driving back from court at 10 a.m. with an hour and a half of driving staring them in the face and also with the really good sandwich Sweetie made for their lunch, the fried-egg-and-ham-and-cheese sandwich, sitting there taunting them.
And most people did not then take the sandwich out of their bag at 10:15 a.m. just to look at it, I swear, and did not then realize that they also had leftover pizza as a side dish in their lunch. I know that most people did not go through that, because if they had, like I did, then most people would have eaten their lunch at 10:15, like I did, and most people would have then also opted not to eat the Cheetos because they felt guilty, like I did. (I left them in the car as a peace offering of sorts, a peace offering to the Gods Who Smite People Who Eat Their Lunch At 10:15 Because They Were Bored.)(I'll probably eat those on the way home from work, though. Sorry, Gods, etc.)
All of which led to me voting after my lunch but before your lunch. My original plan was not to vote during the day at all; it was to go vote tonight and take Mr F and Mr Bunches with me so that I could introduce them to the democratic process, and introduce the democratic process to them, and also so that if they acted up people would let me skip in line. Kids play an important role in government that way.
But I caved in to peer pressure from Sweetie (Sweetie is my only peer these days, and she pressures me all the time) and did not take them to vote with me because Sweetie thought it might throw the Republic into chaos, and also that it might not be good for them to be hauled around the polling place. Instead, I voted during the day, so tonight, I will have nothing to do but watch election coverage and put my laundry away and play with Mr F and Mr Bunches, and playing with Mr F and Mr Bunches is what inspired me to pick song 32, All For Swinging You Around, by New Pornographers:
Down... to go... is all the songs on my iPod coupled with all these things that I've done. Read about Song 32 here.
Did you know The New Pornographers Were Picked As The Best Band That Isn't The Beatles, Or U2 Or The White Stripes?
Colon
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