Friends, Artists, Inspirations

Went and did my civic duty and voted. Ooh. Ahh. Gonna be real honest, don't really have much of an opinion on the offerings for the primary but I did have one, and I also live in a state that tried really, really hard to immediately jump on the gerrymandering trend but got stomped back by everyone and their hamster voting early so... felt I should.

Normally we vote at the church on the other side of the cemetery that backs up to the neighborhood. It's right nextdoor to the neighborhood. In theory I could, if I were wanting to risk ticks and whatever else, walk there. But for whatever reason, our primary voting place is the school across and down the highway. Didn't realize I'd never been there before but I hadn't, or if I did, it was before whatever renovations they've done in the last however many years. The drive there? Nice. We timed it so the traffic wasn't bad at all and was non-existent once we crossed the highway. Ooh, ahh. Alas, this meant that once we finally found the parking lot, we joined the trickle of senior citizens who were also very confused as to where the fuck one actually goes to vote.

There were a bunch of signs telling you to turn and vote here and a bunch telling you that voting parking was here, but once you were here... there was exactly ONE easy to miss sign telling you which way to go. In fact, if you parked where the original sets of signs pointed, you couldn't see the one sign. (As in I didn't even see it until we were forced to lap the lot after we voted and got back in the car.) If you've never been to the school, you'll have NFI where the cafeteria is (which is where one would guess the voting would be and was) and so by the time we got someone at the school to come out and point out where to go, I was in a small cluster of very pissed off and hot (because it's fucking summer even if the calendar doesn't agree) senior citizens who now had to trek all the way across campus because no one in their right mind is gonna think, "I should cut through the dumpster area to go vote."

We finally get to the cafeteria, which is surprisingly small for how large the school is (I think my elementary school cafeteria was larger and they fucking bulldozed it during Widget's years because the school was too small) and Mums and the other seniors are still very much not happy. The volunteers try to appease them but like... y'all need another sign or to have someone go out and gather people. Or just... move one of the signs from the street or something if this is all you've got. The way it's currently set up, you're gonna have a senior citizen get heatstroke from the combo of all the walking (because the little shade the buildings offered will be gone come noon) and being upset because they're lost. :/ In allllllllllll my years of voting, or going with Mums when I was little, I've never seen a polling place set up so poorly.

Some of the volunteers also seemed a little put off by how things were being handled, which definitely didn't make me want to put on my tinfoil hat. Nope. Honestly, if I didn't have to work tonight and I'd brought a drink, I might've sat outside and directed people. But I do and I didn't (and I didn't slather on sunscreen) so... good luck, folks.


Called the eyeglass place to ask if I'd need to come get my eye exam done again for my DMV renewal but I lucked out. Huzzah! Just gotta remember to actually do the online paperwork tomorrow or whenever they get me the info.

Second rainbow mani for the month done. :D

Mums has been watching Andromeda and it's been very weird having nostalgia for the time the show aired but not so much the show, as I didn't watch then but like... I was aware of it.