It is election day: I predict that
- with the first wave of ballots, two school board challengers will enjoy leads of comfortable (5+%) margins; one will have a sliver lead, and one will look to be behind but will catch up into recount territory;
- my men will forgo dinner so as to load up on drinks and Mexican food at the victory party; -- already wrong: my husband is bailing so he can catch a Japanese women's rock band tonight. My child might want to watch an animation festival tonight.
- no one but trolls will respond to the press release I cowrote; (did you know that some Internet blog commentators hate facts? you can get down votes for sharing things like "Today is Tuesday;" "Abbas Kiarostami is an Iranian director who has made travelogues;" "the person profiled in this HOV-lane abuse article has had 27 court charges, three of them for stiffing Chevron, and two State Departments;" "Bank of America's holding company moved $53 trillion worth of toxic derivatives into its FDIC-insured banking unit." -- all flawlessly true.) -- wrong, unless we count two education bloggers as trolls.
- I will go to the hardware store to get batteries for a flashlight, a replacement bulb for our refrigerator, and some firewood; - partly true: bulb didn't need replacement, we have a flashlight already, but I bought scraper, chemical defroster and firewood.
- I will go to the auto supply store to get a chemical defroster; - see above.
- I will go to the grocery store for big size kitty litter and distilled water. -no kitty litter needed. Distilled water still on list.
Predictions for today
November 8th, 2011 at 09:45 pm
November 8th, 2011 at 09:12 pm 1320786741
November 9th, 2011 at 06:14 am 1320819265
November 9th, 2011 at 03:13 pm 1320851616
(My candidate is behind by only 2992 votes in a mail-in ballot count, so I have hope. If she wins, don't be surprised if I switch to Flannery O'Connor.)
November 13th, 2011 at 02:50 am 1321152659
November 13th, 2011 at 04:42 pm 1321202563
If we all be calm and make no false moves this transaction will go smoothly.
Whoa ma'am we don't want no trouble.