Tag: vote

Well, does Godot speak Greek?

Weekly meditation on how I don’t hate Monday, I hate capitalism.

Dropped off my ballot one whole day before the election. Go me.

Read: Counting by 7s (Holly Goldberg Sloan): A middle school girl who is probably on the spectrum or otherwise definitely neurospicy loses her adoptive parents and while semi-catatonic from grief has to cobble together a new family from whoever is to hand (school counselor, sister of the boy with the counseling appointment before hers, cab driver, etc). It is kind of weird with multiple viewpoints and coincidences and stuff, but heartwarming.

Written: 360, but most of that was deleting old stuff that was getting in the way of the doom.

Jellyfish don’t care about your time change.

Managed to buy cat supplies, but that’s about it. You’d think I would be full of energy after getting an hour back, but have you met me? And have you met this cat pinning me under the blankets?

Did fill out my ballot, based mostly on the Equality California endorsements and Vote411.

Read: Must Be Tuesday (Erika Chappell): The RPG for the general case of Buffy the Vampire Slayer: no serial numbers, but you are high school students who are also monsters, and monsters of all kinds keep showing up to cause problems that you have to deal with, because who else is going to? There are mechanics for task resolution, sure, but the important part is balancing your human-to-monster track, because if you run off either end, you become an NPC. Not sure how it would work in practice, since pretty much every roll affects the track in some way, it would be very non-immersive.

Read: Games For Freaks vol 1 (Tom Bloom): Expansion material for Maleghast and CAIN, which I’ve never played, and I don’t even have any particular interest in the former since it’s a wargame, but the author sure makes them sound cool. Possibly, like Lancer, the flavor text is the only part that’s at all interesting.

Written: 236

I could not find any helpful information on the judicial confirmations, but was able to form opinions on everything else up for a vote. (The partisan offices were easy, because the time to go “well, even though he’s a Republican, he seems reasonable” is long past.) Looks like many other people nationwide also declined to vote for fascism, possibly even enough. Also nice to be able to point and laugh at the (rich, male) pundits who said abortion wasn’t important to people.

Written: 326 NaNoWriMo words.

I committed An Democracy (as my pocket fronds say) (well, it would be a crime if Republicans had their way!). Go me.

Read: Dumplin’ (Julie Murphy): A fat girl enters the teen beauty pageant that is her small Texas town’s entire reason for existing while love-triangling and dealing with death of an aunt and horribleness of a mother.

Words: Check. Also I did make some progress on being able to publish, but to do proper testing I need to set up another WP site, which is annoying.