Reminding everyone to vote

If you live in a place that has elections, please vote when you have the opportunity: it may not change things, but not voting certainly won't.

In particular, if you're an American citizen, please vote on 2 November, both for President and for Congress and (if relevant this time around) Senate. And any local races that you care about (if they're asking you to choose between three people you know nothing about for Third Assistant Dog-catcher, I'm not going to try to convince you that it matters).

Some friendly people are running a sweepstakes to encourage people to vote. If you click on this link, you get a chance to enter, and I get an entry for the referrer prize. They also have a link to Rock the Vote's voter registration Web page, if you're eligible (if you're a US citizen, age 18 as of election day, and not a convicted felon, you can vote; felons can vote in some states but not others).

Yes, I'm supporting John Kerry (largely because I believe it's very important to re-defeat Bush), but I am doing so in part because I believe that democracy matters, so please register and vote, whether you agree with me, or think Dubya is the greatest thing since sliced bread.

Reminding everyone to vote

If you live in a place that has elections, please vote when you have the opportunity: it may not change things, but not voting certainly won't.

In particular, if you're an American citizen, please vote on 2 November, both for President and for Congress and (if relevant this time around) Senate. And any local races that you care about (if they're asking you to choose between three people you know nothing about for Third Assistant Dog-catcher, I'm not going to try to convince you that it matters).

Some friendly people are running a sweepstakes to encourage people to vote. If you click on this link, you get a chance to enter, and I get an entry for the referrer prize. They also have a link to Rock the Vote's voter registration Web page, if you're eligible (if you're a US citizen, age 18 as of election day, and not a convicted felon, you can vote; felons can vote in some states but not others).

Yes, I'm supporting John Kerry (largely because I believe it's very important to re-defeat Bush), but I am doing so in part because I believe that democracy matters, so please register and vote, whether you agree with me, or think Dubya is the greatest thing since sliced bread.

Tea

I am, unexpectedly and very annoyingly, out of golden Assam tea: I knocked the canister over and spilled the remaining contents on the kitchen floor, leaving me with only the tea leaves I'd just put into a tea ball for the then-current mug of tea. I had already put this tea on the shopping list, but I figured I had enough for the coming week.

A quick inventory confirmed that I was also almost out of Ceylon breakfast and Irish breakfast tea, though well-stocked on jasmine dragon (a green tea that papersky introduced me to) and Darjeeling. The current cup is the "orange douce" (a black tea blend with, I think, orange peel and maybe some other orange flavouring) I picked up in Montreal when Papersky and rysmiel took me, jonsinger, and lisajulie to the tea shop, which I think was last year. As I was bringing it into the living room, I realized that I'm not out of good strong Indian tea: I have the PG Tips.

Nonetheless, a trip to McNulty's is indicated sooner than I was planning (for the Golden Assam), and another to Sahadi (which is, among other things, a good place to get Ceylon breakfast--though I may put off the other Sahadi's stuff, walk from McNulty's to Porto Rico, and pay a whopping $2.39/box instead of $2.20/box (McNulty's charges significantly more--I buy the Assam there because Porto Rico doesn't have an Assam I really like, but that's the only thing I buy there) to save a bit of time. (The walk from one Village tea store to the other is, I think, shorter than the walk from the subway to Sahadi's, and from Porto Rico I can get the A train a lot quicker than from Sahadi's, not to mention that it's a shorter subway trip).

Tea

I am, unexpectedly and very annoyingly, out of golden Assam tea: I knocked the canister over and spilled the remaining contents on the kitchen floor, leaving me with only the tea leaves I'd just put into a tea ball for the then-current mug of tea. I had already put this tea on the shopping list, but I figured I had enough for the coming week.

A quick inventory confirmed that I was also almost out of Ceylon breakfast and Irish breakfast tea, though well-stocked on jasmine dragon (a green tea that papersky introduced me to) and Darjeeling. The current cup is the "orange douce" (a black tea blend with, I think, orange peel and maybe some other orange flavouring) I picked up in Montreal when Papersky and rysmiel took me, jonsinger, and lisajulie to the tea shop, which I think was last year. As I was bringing it into the living room, I realized that I'm not out of good strong Indian tea: I have the PG Tips.

Nonetheless, a trip to McNulty's is indicated sooner than I was planning (for the Golden Assam), and another to Sahadi (which is, among other things, a good place to get Ceylon breakfast--though I may put off the other Sahadi's stuff, walk from McNulty's to Porto Rico, and pay a whopping $2.39/box instead of $2.20/box (McNulty's charges significantly more--I buy the Assam there because Porto Rico doesn't have an Assam I really like, but that's the only thing I buy there) to save a bit of time. (The walk from one Village tea store to the other is, I think, shorter than the walk from the subway to Sahadi's, and from Porto Rico I can get the A train a lot quicker than from Sahadi's, not to mention that it's a shorter subway trip).

Euphemisms, or, usage is weird

A friend of mine (who can identify zirself, or not, as zie chooses) recently made a post in which zie used "shit" as a metasyntactic variable, roughly meaning "stuff like that"--and then, in the next sentence, used "poo" to refer to animal feces.

Euphemisms, or, usage is weird

A friend of mine (who can identify zirself, or not, as zie chooses) recently made a post in which zie used "shit" as a metasyntactic variable, roughly meaning "stuff like that"--and then, in the next sentence, used "poo" to refer to animal feces.