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Today was a slow day. I read a bunch of fanfic; I started reading a new book (The Priory of the Orange Tree, by Samantha Shannon); I listened to some Great Courses lectures on Bach and the Baroque era; I potted my four remaining herbs; I took my tomato seedlings, pepper seedlings, and clementine outside for the afternoon and back in at night; and I walked into town and back to buy alu palak for lunch and take my daily photo of Cascadilla Creek. That was pretty much it.

Yesterday I did more stuff -- deposited a check, returned a library book, voted in a school board election, made my weekly grocery run, put away my remaining laundry, did some preliminary garden raking/clearing, and planted my replacement carrot seeds, in addition to some reading and listening and moving seedlings around to accustom them to the outdoors -- but today I just wanted to unwind.

Sometimes that's what your body and mind need, you know? :)

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Anyway, about Tuesday's school board election! I read the candidate info in the Ithaca Times (our local weekly free newspaper, which always runs candidate profiles the week or two before elections; this is especially helpful because the Ithaca Journal, which is the paid daily newspaper, does not do nearly as well on that front) and picked which three candidates I wanted to vote for: two incumbents, and the newcomer running a write-in campaign since she didn't decide to run until after the ballot was finalized and she realized there were no challengers to the three incumbents seeking reelection. My polling place is literally three blocks from my house, so it was very convenient to walk over mid-afternoon and vote both for board members and on the proposed budget and capital expenditures.

All three of my candidates won! This is nice for me, since I often feel slightly out of step with the Ithaca electorate. This is a one-party city, and as always in situations like that, the party in charge starts getting a little, uh, weird. Which can mean fringey-kooky, corrupt, entrenched power-gamey, or some unholy combination of all three. :(

The budget and capital expenditure allowances also passed, which pleases me. I am always in favor of school buildings that aren't falling apart, plumbing systems that are up to code (especially since the school in question has had a lead-in-the-water scare the past couple years), and bus fleets that are road-safe. :)

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