This and That

Even though I've been pretty consistently doing things all day, a lot of it at my desk in the same chair, I'm all over the place. I would say I'm operating in stream of consciousness mode, but it's really more like a series of puddles of consciousness, just hopping from one thing to another. Until about three o'clock, I was doing that thing where you get up and go into another room to do something and when you get there you say out loud "Now why am I here again?" except I wouldn't even remember that I was supposed to be doing something, I'd just see something else in the other room and start doing it. It was very weird.

I had a cup of half-caf after lunch to see if would help my headache -- it did -- but I got all jittery from it and couldn't really do much for about 45 minutes, but I sure was wide awake. I caught up on the week's TV, and when I was better, really got my desk in order, got all my laundry done and put away, that kind of thing. I finished the David Sedaris book last night and haven't decided yet what to read next, but I really am glad I'm back on a good reading track, since I had some kind of attention deficit with that for several years.

I wish the election were over already, although I don't want to see the shitstorm that's going to follow it. I'm starting to think that we should have Sweden or someone come and oversee our elections to make sure they're honestly done. All this voter fraud stuff is too much, and if recent history tells us anything, it's that the Republicans will find ways to have large numbers of votes in Democratic areas declared invalid. (I don't have a link for this, but I remember reading last time that a large number of ballots from our service people overseas were also not counted, which is abominable.) If the stories of voter registration fraud on behalf of Democrats are true, well, that's terrible, too. The name calling is also absurd. No one who is running for president or serving in Congress is a communist or a socialist -- okay, that one representative from Vermont, I think his name is Sanders, is a socialist, but he's upfront about it -- and they are especially not un-American. People need to stop saying that crap; it's just stupid. And really, I'm appalled that McCain's campaign is making those robo-calls and is actually using the same company that made the horrible calls about McCain in 2000. There's something not right there. I just want it to be over.

So, this and that and other stuff, now I'm all farblundget and I can't think of any of the other things I wanted to write about. I need me some ice cream, I'm thinking. Yeah, that's the ticket.

WATCHING L/O: SVU :: ENTRY #1883
READING: uh ... uh ...