Fumarama

11-06: decide that I am not going to vote this year. it does not matter anyway. I live in New York City

9:00am: go to class. Election day excitement begins to set in.

9:30am: still in class, decide I kind of want to vote

12:10pm: realize that I have no idea where I am supposed to vote. You see I moved in the fall of 2004 and never changed my address. Is it against the law to vote in a neighborhood I don't live in? I call the board of elections and try to explain the situation and they just demand to know where I live and then tell me I vote at 40 Washington Square Village.

12:25: decide to give 40 square village a shot, maybe NYC is smart enough to just know that I moved. I have been paying NYC taxes for the past 2 years.

12:28: am informed that there is no 40 washington square village maybe I meant 4 wash sq village

12:31: No no, apparently there is no polling place at 4 wash sq villiage

12:44: ok, I find 3 wash square village which is where people at my address as supposed to vote(for the record the washington square village comples is like huge, going from Mercer to La Guardia and 3rd to Bleeker). Of-course I am not registered there. The woman tells me that I can sign an affidavit and vote on paper there or I can go to the board of elections and get a judge to allow me to vote in my own district on a machine. So the paper ballot would let me vote and go back to my studies. But I want my vote counted tonight not at some later date once we already know the results. But at the same time, go in front of a judge? I know I am going to be a lawyer, but the thought of a judge was kind of intimidating.
But I have to admit i was kind of curious about the system works for those who screw up. I mean aren't those the problems in Ohio, that somebody accidentally forgets to do a minor thing and suddenly they can't vote. And I was feeling kind of disenfranchised at the moment. Aren't young people one of the disenfranchised groups? granted, I am educated and informed, and should have just changed my address months ago. But still, when you move all the time it is hard.

12:50: in a conversation with a friend, I realize that if I had registered in VA where my mom lives i would be voting in the Webb/Allen election. Which would be so much cooler. More than anything though, I wish my childhood home was not sold and I could cast a vote this year against Rick Santorum. Maybe the republican running for senate against clinton is a racist or homophobe and I just don't know it, and so my vote can still be a stand against bigotry

1:30: head over to 200 Varick street.

1:50: I vote! On a new electronic voting machine. But I kind of miss the old voting booths and pulling the lever.

1:55: I feel giddy in my good citizenship.

8:00: try to go to Old Town bar to meet a friend, but they are taping Six Degrees there. I celebrity spot Erica Christensen. But I am bitter cause the show has such bad ratings that i doubt the episode being taped now and preventing me from going to bar will ever air.

8:15: go to heartland brewery

8:30: friend is getting results from CNN on his cell phone.

8:45: discuss 2008.

9:00ish: find out that Santorum lost. i feel joy.

9:15: More dems win.

9:30pm: leave bar

10:00: turn on television. I love tv election night.

10:15: all this good news. if i had been more paying more attention in the last weeks i think I would not be as happy now. There is nothing as good as low expectations.

10:20ish: George will points out that this is becoming a more conservative congress. Because the republicans losing are the more moderate ones and the ones that are winning are very conservative, and the dems who are winning are more conservative. what a killjoy.

10:25: Rendell wins. He probably won earlier in the night but yay.

10:37: I love Hillary Clinton. And Bill was standing behind her.

10:46: switched to NBC. They just showed Hillary. Bill is clapping and crying in the background. It is unbearably cute.

10:49: The meet the press guy whose name I always forget is using the dry erase board. clearly, with all the fancy graphics NBC has they do not need a dry erase board. Do they think this is cute?

10:55: George Will is now on CNN. He was at ABC like 45 minutes ago. He gets around. Also, Sherwood the Republican in Pa, strangled his mistress, and yet 46% of people still voted for him!?

11:00: did the daily show get an entire studio audience to show up at 11pm on a tuesday night?

11:14: Jon Stewart is wearing a blue tie and Colbert is a red tie.

Next Hour or so: watch daily show, colbert, find out that dems win house.

12:10: I discover that the guy on CNN i thought was George Will is actually Jeff Greenfield. They look alike.

12:32: VA passed the ballot measure on the same sex marraige. ech.

12:34: CNN points out that VA will not be over tonight. And that the maj of the senate might ride on that. Sigh. Another election night when I go to bed not knowing what will happen.

12:52: going to bed.