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[apocalypsos]

Yay! I have now officially voted. (Which is good, because when I left, the line reached approximately to Guam.)

So, my morning so far has looked like this:

5:00 - Roll out of bed.
5:01 - Get up off the floor where I landed and throw on some clothes.
5:10 - After smacking myself to wake myself up, head out to the voting place.
5:12 - Walk towards the voting place wearing a black hoodie and listening to "Mosh."
5:13 - Pause the first time I look around for other people in black hoodies to officially accept the "World's Biggest Idiot" award.
5:30 - Arrive at elementary school voting place. Wonder where all the other black hoodies are.
5:31 - Realize that it's entirely possible the other black hoodies don't even know that 5:30 is a real time and think it was just made up to scare slackers.
5:33 - Am bored. Get thoroughly tempted to call my dad in PA and ask him whom he's voting for. Figure out my father, the world's only terminal night owl, probably got up early enough for his vote to count as being submitted last Tuesday, if he even voted at all.
5:40 - Take out my AlphaSmart fully intended to write. Spend the next ten minutes staring at it trying to remember what it is. Swear off attempting to even think before six in the morning.
5:55 - Watch as pollsters promptly piss off half the line by announcing they're sorting voters in alphabetical order rather than first come, first serve. Become amused when poor, stupid pollster gets yelled at by members of the line for being too doofy to add that he's only doing it with the first ten people or so.
6:00 - Voting begins.
6:02 - As I'm only twelfth or thirteenth in line, yes, that's exactly when I got in there.
6:05 - Leave voting booth. Gaze longingly at the e-voting machine like the technojoy nerd I am.
6:07 - Exit the building. Am promptly confronted by the sight of a line so long it's probably extended itself to New Zealand since I started this post.

So, yay. Now I need to write. And later, to buy booze, because the 7-11 only has crappy alcohol.

Comments

[the-swordman.livejournal.com]

Congrats for your very early civic heroism :)

*puts pictures of you with "definitely cuter and earlier than you" all over the net*

ok hard drinkers, let's drink hard.
I would advice tequila, you can never go wrong with tequila.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Thanks. The fact that it took a presidential election to drag my butt out of bed at five in the morning is terrifying. ;)

I'm all proud of myself. I think I need to buy myself a "Baby's First Presidential Election Vote" present. And maybe one for my brother, too, just because I think it's incredible he wants to vote.

Yay, booze! *drinks Smirnoff like it's water, gets wasted*

[lots42.livejournal.com]

My dad dragged me out at 6, though we got there at 7:30, it being only five minutes away. I've long ago given up trying to understand why my family does crap like that

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

If I called my father and told him I got up at five in the morning to vote, he'd think I'd been replaced by a pod person.

Hee. I probably should do that just for the laugh. *runs for the phone*