On Tuesday I cast my vote for Ralph Nader quite quickly; there was no line at all at my polling place when I got there. Then again, every time I’ve gone there in the past I’ve had women who were old enough to be my grandmothers running the show; this year the poll workers couldn’t have been older than twenty. I’m guessing that they were Obama supporters who volunteered to make sure that things ran smoothly there. Anyway, obviously there was no worry about Nader…
I had a streak going for a few years there of visiting a new state every year. In 2005 I crossed into Kentucky for the first time (for about three minutes after I got lost in downtown Cincinnati), then in 2006 I had my big thirtieth birthday trip to North Carolina (where I also visited West Virginia for the first time). Last year I went to Indiana just to say I’d been to Indiana, and back then I realized that I’m now closer to Canada…
Tomorrow I begin teaching at MCCC again; I’ve got three sections of composition this term, all on Mondays and Wednesdays, and all at the satellite campus. I won’t be driving that much, and I’ll have lots of days off, but I’ve never taught more than one class in a day before and now I have three to deal with. This should be an interesting challenge for me, especially since I’ll be teaching MCCC’s Composition I as a fifteen-week course for the first time ever. Even…
A couple of weeks ago we dropped Skooter off at the Humane Society. It had been our hope to incorporate her into the house after Dad’s death, but she was proving too difficult to get along with her. She wouldn’t use her litterboxes, she kept getting underfoot, and she just never got along with Mom. I didn’t like doing this, but I agreed that it was for the best. This means that, for the first time in over twenty years, there is not a cat…
Anyone who knows me will tell you that I am not a morning person. As much as I enjoy going out to the parks and botanical gardens this time of year and marveling at the trees and flowers and the way the sun pokes through all the leaves creating wonderful kaleidoscopes of light, there is only so much sun I can take. Back before I went back to college, it seemed as if I could only work on my creative pursuits in the darkest part…