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1. Arranged to swap shifts with Miss Cactus this coming week, in order to attend a mandatory Not the IRS training day. (It may be paid training. I am not sure.)
2. Changed my clocks for the end of Daylight Saving Time.
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11. Voted.
Fuck fuck fuckity fucking fuck.
I had been uneasy about this election since before the primaries last year, when I overheard one of my Not the IRS coworkers repeatedly telling people (both coworkers and clients) to "hold your nose and vote for Trump" because she thought he had the best chance of beating Hillary Clinton. As time went on, she shifted away from the 'hold your nose' qualifier and started talking about his supposed business genius and good ideas on health care, presumably because once people commit to a course of action we tend to shift our beliefs to make that course of action seem good/right instead of merely tolerable.
I was really hoping most people weren't buying into that mindset. But apparently, no, that was prophetic.
(As a tax preparer, I will say that the implementation of the tax credits and penalties associated with the ACA is terribly designed and needs fixing. But Obamacare also got me health insurance after I lost my job at the smoke shop, so, you know, fixing is not remotely the same as repealing.)
...
In more local election news, I still have the same state assembly rep and state senator (Democrat and relatively reasonable Republican, respectively), the same federal Representative (not-so-reasonable Republican), and the same federal Senator (Schumer). The new county DA will be the Democratic nominee rather than the guy who lost the Democratic nomination process and then pitched a fit about ~rigging~ (the prior DA resigned in July, too late to hold a primary, so the nominations were decided by party committees) and ran as an independent.
...
(My two immediate rental company bosses voted for Clinton, which made Wednesday marginally less awful than it could have been; we were all sick and horrified together. I am not looking forward to the Not the IRS training session on Wednesday, though. Tax prep is not a particularly left-leaning profession, even in a place like Ithaca.)
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21. Chopped vegetables in preparation for cooking fajitas tomorrow evening. This included some of my own homegrown peppers. I will do a photo post about that sometime later.
2. Changed my clocks for the end of Daylight Saving Time.
( more items under the cut )
11. Voted.
Fuck fuck fuckity fucking fuck.
I had been uneasy about this election since before the primaries last year, when I overheard one of my Not the IRS coworkers repeatedly telling people (both coworkers and clients) to "hold your nose and vote for Trump" because she thought he had the best chance of beating Hillary Clinton. As time went on, she shifted away from the 'hold your nose' qualifier and started talking about his supposed business genius and good ideas on health care, presumably because once people commit to a course of action we tend to shift our beliefs to make that course of action seem good/right instead of merely tolerable.
I was really hoping most people weren't buying into that mindset. But apparently, no, that was prophetic.
(As a tax preparer, I will say that the implementation of the tax credits and penalties associated with the ACA is terribly designed and needs fixing. But Obamacare also got me health insurance after I lost my job at the smoke shop, so, you know, fixing is not remotely the same as repealing.)
...
In more local election news, I still have the same state assembly rep and state senator (Democrat and relatively reasonable Republican, respectively), the same federal Representative (not-so-reasonable Republican), and the same federal Senator (Schumer). The new county DA will be the Democratic nominee rather than the guy who lost the Democratic nomination process and then pitched a fit about ~rigging~ (the prior DA resigned in July, too late to hold a primary, so the nominations were decided by party committees) and ran as an independent.
...
(My two immediate rental company bosses voted for Clinton, which made Wednesday marginally less awful than it could have been; we were all sick and horrified together. I am not looking forward to the Not the IRS training session on Wednesday, though. Tax prep is not a particularly left-leaning profession, even in a place like Ithaca.)
( more items under the cut )
21. Chopped vegetables in preparation for cooking fajitas tomorrow evening. This included some of my own homegrown peppers. I will do a photo post about that sometime later.
