Matt and I were unable to vote in the VA elections yesterday, seeing as we are not VA residents, seeing as we only moved to the state four days ago. But with all of the hullabaloo surrounding the Allen-Webb race (which probably isn't quite as much of a hullabaloo where you all are) I'm thinking we should have tried to plan ahead a little more.
I keep asking students, "Who's planning to vote?" or "Who voted?" and maybe it's sad how un-surprised I am that way less than half of the students in all the classes I've taught in the past week said that they actually voted or planned to vote. I guess they just don't know how exciting it is to live in a state where your own individual vote in an election just might actually make a big difference on the state and national level.
But apparently the polls were still packed, especially here in northern VA. Here everyone votes at schools, so all public-school students get a free holiday. I mentioned to some people at work that Mom and Dad's house used to be a polling place, and they were surprised and intrigued. It hadn't occurred to them that someone's house could be a polling place. I probably complained, but I always thought it was still a little bit fun to have various characters milling around into the night, the living room transformed into a magical sea of drab brown booths.
Plus, the occupied living room meant that I got to skip practicing the piano for the day, which is almost as good as getting out of school.
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When I went to vote last night - at the Lutheran Church on Mauna Loa and Foothill - where they have been voting for the past many elections - they have combined voting districts and don't use houses as much anymore - I ran into several women who remembered when they used to work the elections at our house.
Too bad I never took pictures!! Guess we will have to be content with "word pictures."
Oh, word pictures.
Oh, but the hullabaloo has reached all the way to Monrovia. Razon thin.
And so few of us vote.
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