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edenfalling1. 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.
3. Called Vicky last weekend to catch up.
4. Changed linens (all of them). Washed laundry. Dried laundry. Put laundry away.
5. Cleaned my bathroom, including scrubbing my shower curtain and soaking it in bleach for several hours to remove the inevitable mildew buildup. I hate mildew.
6. Took the recycling bins to the curb Sunday night. Put the empty bins back on the porch Monday morning.
7. Various pepper photograph posts. Also moved peppers inside and outside several times to keep them from freezing overnight.
8. Paid my monthly internet bill.
9. Cooked a batch of veggie sidedish. Cooked a batch of rice. Boiled a dozen eggs.
10. Took the resulting compost out to the compost bin.
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.)
12. Potted my narcissus bulb.
13. Cut my fingernails and toenails.
14. Bought groceries.
15. Sorted, counted, and dropped off three boxes full of books -- some from my shelves, some from my parents' shelves -- to the Friends of the Library book sale. I got the donation sheet signed and will give it to my parents for their taxes. (They itemize. I don't.)
16. Watered my houseplants.
17. Facilitated youth group. Agreed to contact the service committee (and the social justice committee? I think we have one of those...) to see if they are planning anything that the kids could get involved in. Also talked some about the importance of midterm elections and how voting is a responsibility as well as a right.
18. Called Mom to talk about Thanksgiving plans.
19. Changed linens (bath towel, washcloth, and pillowcase only).
20. Raked two bags full of leaves from the... whatever the name is for the strip of lawn between the sidewalk and the street. This doesn't sound like a lot, but I live in a corner house. We have a lot of sidewalk and consequently a lot of that type of lawn. Not nearly as many leaves as last year, though, since the giant maple got chopped down this spring and its replacement is only a tiny and sad baby oak. I put yard waste tags on the bags and have left them out on the curb for collection. I'll get the back yard on Friday, I think.
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.
3. Called Vicky last weekend to catch up.
4. Changed linens (all of them). Washed laundry. Dried laundry. Put laundry away.
5. Cleaned my bathroom, including scrubbing my shower curtain and soaking it in bleach for several hours to remove the inevitable mildew buildup. I hate mildew.
6. Took the recycling bins to the curb Sunday night. Put the empty bins back on the porch Monday morning.
7. Various pepper photograph posts. Also moved peppers inside and outside several times to keep them from freezing overnight.
8. Paid my monthly internet bill.
9. Cooked a batch of veggie sidedish. Cooked a batch of rice. Boiled a dozen eggs.
10. Took the resulting compost out to the compost bin.
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.)
12. Potted my narcissus bulb.
13. Cut my fingernails and toenails.
14. Bought groceries.
15. Sorted, counted, and dropped off three boxes full of books -- some from my shelves, some from my parents' shelves -- to the Friends of the Library book sale. I got the donation sheet signed and will give it to my parents for their taxes. (They itemize. I don't.)
16. Watered my houseplants.
17. Facilitated youth group. Agreed to contact the service committee (and the social justice committee? I think we have one of those...) to see if they are planning anything that the kids could get involved in. Also talked some about the importance of midterm elections and how voting is a responsibility as well as a right.
18. Called Mom to talk about Thanksgiving plans.
19. Changed linens (bath towel, washcloth, and pillowcase only).
20. Raked two bags full of leaves from the... whatever the name is for the strip of lawn between the sidewalk and the street. This doesn't sound like a lot, but I live in a corner house. We have a lot of sidewalk and consequently a lot of that type of lawn. Not nearly as many leaves as last year, though, since the giant maple got chopped down this spring and its replacement is only a tiny and sad baby oak. I put yard waste tags on the bags and have left them out on the curb for collection. I'll get the back yard on Friday, I think.
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.
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Date: 2016-11-14 03:19 pm (UTC)I have voted in every federal election since I turned 18. I didn't vote in local school board elections and stuff while I was still registered to vote in NJ, since I was already functionally living in Ithaca from August 2000 onward and didn't feel comfortable voting on local issues I knew nothing about. I have also missed three school board elections in Ithaca -- one I was out of town, one I just plain forgot, and one I went to my polling place but it was inexplicably not staffed so I couldn't vote -- but generally, yeah, I vote for everything. Otherwise I don't feel justified in complaining about the government later on, and who doesn't enjoy complaining about the government? *wry*
Anyway, I think I feel strongly about voting partially because I have a tendency toward responsibility/guilt issues in general, but also because my parents have always been big on participatory social responsibility: the idea that if you claim membership in a group, you must pitch in and do tangible stuff, for whatever the relevant definition of tangible stuff may be. And of course, Mom took me into the voting booth with her in the 1984 election and let me flick switches and pull levers, which cemented the idea that voting = cool in my brain when I was far too young to have any countervailing influences.