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I'm glad I have friends on my list like mizzmarvel, who point out great news like these inducements to vote if you are in Seattle or New York. :)

Chapter 42,453*; In which I get a Sticker and am Reminded that I'm a Hermit.

I got a sticker that says I voted! :) It makes you feel a little like your five years old. In Australia they get fined if they don't vote, here you get a sticker if you do. :)

I must have been in line for at least an hour, because I left here right around 7am or shortly thereafter and it was 8:15 when I got home. It was amazing - I've never seen a line at my polling place before, and never had anyone else. Although someone pointed out that maybe many of us weren't in this neighborhood for the last presidential election. The line stretched out the door of Reiche School, across the (admittedly small - like a dozen cars) parking lot and down to the sidewalk, and when we got into the hall we found it was doubled back and divided, so there were three lines of people, one shuffling in and two shuffling back. I meant to check on my way out and see if it was any shorter by then, because it could just have been the first rush of people who wanted to be there before work, but I forgot.

( all the minor amusements offered by standing in line for an hour )

And all the while I wondered why I'd taken a huge mug of tea with me, and eaten nothing, because my stomach only got emptier while my bladder got fuller.
But of course when I got home I had to write all this as soon as I peed, so now my stomach is eating itself. :)

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*Number arrived at by using my age, the week of the year and the day of the week.