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orichalcum at 12:15pm on 21/10/2004
orichalcum at 12:15pm on 21/10/20041. First of all, congrats Red Sox and all that. However, I will be extremely, extremely bitter if you do not now go on to win the Series and produce good omens for your Senator. You _cannot_ lose to the Astros. I also remind the fans that the "curse" is the 7th game of the World Series, not the pennant.
2. I realized this morning that I've been channeling all of my stress and tension for personal reasons into the election campaign. I had a terrifying nightmare in which I woke up and went out to join my parents for breakfast in our house in CA, and my dad said that not only had the Sox won, but Bush had invoked a little-known rule that advanced the election two weeks in case of national emergency and swept the states. The rest of the dream was spent angsting and going into depressed tirades. This is not especially healthy.
3. Overseas Voting - This terrifies me. Both because the government office in charge has been dawdling massively, because the potential for fraud is so high, and because, as I just realized, I could personally have fixed most of the overseas vote of Madrid, Spain in the 1992 election at the age of 14, if I had wanted to.
So, my family and I spent the fall of 1992 living in Madrid. And my high school government teacher (American School of Madrid) invited me and a couple of other students to come help out at the American Embassy Party the night of the election. When we got there, it turned out our duties were to count all the absentee ballots turned into the Embassy, while the adults partied. Now, it's possible that someone else re-checked my counts later, but I don't think so, and we went through 700 or 800 ballots, which wouldn't have counted the military ballots, but would have most other folks. Clinton won by about the same percentage as he did nation-wide, as I remember. But the point is - I could have made those numbers up. I didn't, but I could have. It was a great night - first all-nighter of my life, as we didn't start getting results till 3 AM...
So Boston - don't blow it. We need all the karma we can get here.
2. I realized this morning that I've been channeling all of my stress and tension for personal reasons into the election campaign. I had a terrifying nightmare in which I woke up and went out to join my parents for breakfast in our house in CA, and my dad said that not only had the Sox won, but Bush had invoked a little-known rule that advanced the election two weeks in case of national emergency and swept the states. The rest of the dream was spent angsting and going into depressed tirades. This is not especially healthy.
3. Overseas Voting - This terrifies me. Both because the government office in charge has been dawdling massively, because the potential for fraud is so high, and because, as I just realized, I could personally have fixed most of the overseas vote of Madrid, Spain in the 1992 election at the age of 14, if I had wanted to.
So, my family and I spent the fall of 1992 living in Madrid. And my high school government teacher (American School of Madrid) invited me and a couple of other students to come help out at the American Embassy Party the night of the election. When we got there, it turned out our duties were to count all the absentee ballots turned into the Embassy, while the adults partied. Now, it's possible that someone else re-checked my counts later, but I don't think so, and we went through 700 or 800 ballots, which wouldn't have counted the military ballots, but would have most other folks. Clinton won by about the same percentage as he did nation-wide, as I remember. But the point is - I could have made those numbers up. I didn't, but I could have. It was a great night - first all-nighter of my life, as we didn't start getting results till 3 AM...
So Boston - don't blow it. We need all the karma we can get here.
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So I'm not buying it.