I voted!

I voted!
Originally uploaded by e_juliana

At 9:15 this morning, to be exact, after waiting 40+ minutes.

My usual polling place did not have the usual amount of booths. One the one hand, I get that SF increased the number of polling places, so the booths had to be spread out. On the other, we were facing a ballot that included *12* state-wide measures and *24* city/county-wide measures. I think more booths would have been a Good Thing.

I was voter #260 - at 9:15 a.m. Dude. 260 people in my teeny little district voted within 2 hours. Kind of amazing, no?

I'm running 5 tabs of election coverage in a separate browser than my usual one. The Laughing Squid has a blogroll of coverage that I'm going to run back to when I get home post-root canal (whee).

The non-CA, non-Presidential races I'm watching are Senate: Franken vs. Coleman in MN and Begich vs. Stevens in AK. FiveThirtyEight.com is calling Begich a lock to win and tilting towards Franken. I hope they're right.

And yes, I'm wearing a hoodie today. Partly because I am getting sick fast, and partly in tribute to Eminem's 2004 "Mosh". My ex-husband and I went to Target, bought our black hoodies, and went and voted. That hoodie is faded and holey now, but I still have it. I still hoped.

Also, I would just like to share this photo of an Alaskan voting. It's in Chatanika Lodge, which used to be a mining camp. We used to visit there a lot, when I was a kid.