Dear Readers,
Sorry for the boring notebook paper. Not even a neat letterhead to make this look interesting. But I don’t have any special stationary this time.
By the time this letter reaches your inbox I’ll have been sitting at the polls for at least an hour. I’ll have been there for over 1 1/2 hours. And I’ll have been up for over 2 1/2 hours. It’s going to be a long day. Well, actually, it might go quickly because it’s going to be busy! I probably won’t have time to take a quiet lunch, and I certainly won’t have time to walk a mile around the room like I did back in April. No, this will be an election where we think 2 minutes of no one in the room is pure bliss! I didn’t even take my knitting because I won’t have time to knit. But that’s today.
Last month I spend working at the County Clerk’s Office and teaching writing. And trying to get ready for camp. Did I succeed? After a fashion. I’ve hardly been around camp yet. It looks like they are all doing okay without me, but it’s early.
This is a strange camp for me. You see, I don’t have a tent. Nope. Tentalizing Tales is still packed up in our storage shed. Life has just been so crazy and busy and full that the very idea of having a tent at camp was too much. I still plan to write and join in some sprints and such, and I do have a goal of 10k words, but I’m an Auntie without a tent.
Maybe next week I can take a deep breath and relax. I should be home tomorrow, but I might be working Thursday and Friday as part of some bipartisan teams hand-counting some ballots. I can’t imagine trying to hand count every single one!
And that’s all I have time for. Have a great week! If you’re in the US and old enough to vote, don’t forget to get out and cast your vote!
I believe what you mean about being too busy at the polls for quiet times! I could definitely see this time had longer lines than most other election days. I often forget that many people don’t participate in most of the elections. *sigh*
Hope you can find time enough to write! It’s the same hope I have for myself. 😉
CutePolarBear/Hanna
Thanks, Hanna! I’m hoping I’ll be able to get back to writing soon. Though so many people voted early that it wasn’t nearly as busy at my polling place as I expected it to be.
Haha! At my polling place, two minutes of no one there *was* pure bliss! It was crazy — the e-poll books quit working after only 17 voters, the line kept backing up, we had a person nearly pass out from low blood sugar, and one person fell out because his heart literally stopped. But his pacemaker kicked in, he lost the blue-ness and regained a healthy color, and the first thing he said? “Can I have my place in line back? I came to vote!”
. . . And all of that was before 8:30a. So . . . yeah. Busy doesn’t begin to cut it! We had 900 voters cast ballots between 8 and 11, and people were waiting in line 2 hours. In the rain. That was what I called dedication!! Thankfully, no hand counting this go-round!
Wow! That sounds like quite the day! My day was actually easier and slower than I was expecting! Perhaps because we had record breaking numbers voting early.