First, four bullet points for you:
- I have selected the photo to showcase for last week’s Mini Photo Friday theme. The photo was selected based 100% on how much I actually wanted to eat it. Go here to see it.
- I was totally unclear about when the next theme would be announced. The theme: black & white is applicable for this week, this photo friday. Although I will confess that I am happy to already see some great submissions. Make sure you upload your photo into the flirckR pool. If you only put it on your blog I may not see it.
- Next week you will see a poll within a post and YOU will select which photo should be showcased. Winner of showcase gets a creative responsibility as a prize. (oooh!)
- As for yesterday’s post. I know you all have questions. Hell, I certainly do. But until my dispute has been heard and responded to I won’t elaborate. I will say that I am confused and if I am able to fight it I will. It means a lot that all of you guys were just as up in arms as I was. I have gotten several e-mails from you regarding other options and they were greatly received. Thank you.
And now, as I said, we will be moving right along…
Today is an election day in my state. (oh it does not feel right to type the words “my state” let me rephrase.) Today is an election day in the state where I currently have to live. I have spent a lot of time on research and after making a mental list of pros and cons I am fairly certain that I will be dangling my chad for whoever looks best in a pant suit.
What kills me is that, at the end of the day, my vote does not matter. Now before you think this is just another one of those, “what difference could my vote make?” rants it is not. In fact I DO think every vote counts. Don’t you guys ever watch teen movies? The prom queen vote always comes down to the last couple of votes.
But in this case, in my state, my vote literally does not count. It is not because I am not registered to vote here (I am) and it is not because the people at the polling place don’t like me (they do) it is because, in a move to draw attention to our state we moved our primary up. And then we got slapped on the wrists.
I can not tell you how frustrating it is to know that my voice will not be a part of the great chorus of the primary election process. (but it won’t stop me from singing, er, voting)
It makes me think about the other times in my life where I felt like I didn’t have a say: A choice was made for me. I can live with someone else telling me what is for supper (hell, I actually would love that). But what hurts is someone telling me how I should look, how I should act, how I should live my life. (there is a deeper post there)
GM is up and stirring and I need to attend to her, but I wonder what things in her life she didn’t have a say in. What about you? What don’t you have a say about?
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Well, as a lesbian there are a lot of things regarding family and just rights in general that i feel i don’t have a say in. Especially in this lovely state where you and i both live.
And as for the election–pfffflllltttt! That’s what i have to say about that. i still voted (early) because of the constitutional amendment #1 that’s on the ballot that in my opinion has some seriously bad consequences for education. Basically, getting the Dems disheartened was a ploy by the Reps to get this amendment passed–they knew that Dems wouldn’t show up and therefore wouldn’t pass NO votes on it. So if you live in Florida and have a soul (sorry, i meant, vote Democratic, get out there!!
well, of course, like amanda, I was going to comment about the lack of rights that I have, the fact that I can’t adopt Sassa… but I’ve been screaming enough about that lately. How about the fact that I don’t have a say about getting pregnant? That I don’t have a say about this war we’re spending so much of my tax dollars on?
There’s so much of our lives that we have no control over. It makes it that much more important that we exercise control over what we can.
Wow, I think I swallowed a sugar pill…
I thought you had chosen a candidate (though the little button didn’t make it over to this site so maybe not?). Check out my Facebook pic to see who I’m rooting for.
Your deeper question….I think I will have to come back to answer that. Control is a huge thing in my life.
I’m glad you are voting. I hope enough dems get out to vote so that at least it’ll be reported in all the news channels and maybe will sway some Super Tuesday voters.
As for me, as a non-citizen, I have no vote. Even though I have lived here for 7 years and paid taxes consistently. Didn’t you throw out my ancestors for taxation without representation? And it’s not my fault I’m not a citizen – it’s all due to USCIS delays. So, yeah, that pleases me. Not.
This sounds pathetic and small compared to other complaints about feeling like they don’t have a choice but here goes…my main form of writing is for theatre, it’s my background, my first love. The thing is, in this city I live in, if not this country, the theatre industry seems incredibly closed off and controlled by small groups of people who gatekeep like crazy. I do get plays produced but instead of them all adding up so that I move further along the line every play is like starting from scratch because I’m not in the group. That’s partly because I’m the wrong age and partly because I’m the wrong sex. I have an agent, I’ve won awards, I’ve done the hard yards but still a lot of my work doesn’t get done and it really really shits me off, especially when I see some of the work that does get up. I often feel excluded (along with plenty of other female playwrights my age and older) and that I don’t count. It doesn’t stop me writing but it means I have scripts stockpiling… sigh. Stopping now. Oh wait… the pregnancy thing. Yes.
We live in MI, so we felt that hand slap too. I didn’t even vote. It was sad.
Don’t despair! The whole “your votes don’t count in Florida” is not the whole truth, mainly because the political process in the United States is nowhere near simple, especially when it comes to appointing a Pres. candidate to the party. You guys will definitely affect the whole nomination process, delegates or not. Read this first article and you’ll feel a little better.
http://www.sptimes.com/2008/01/10/State/Florida_voters_retain.shtml
These next three links are about the whole nomination process. You’ll see by the time you get around to the third link, the process is as clear as mud. After reading all this, I am convinced that the delegates might get really baked and decide who is the Dem. candidate by playing Pin the Tail on the Candidate. And am I to assume by “pants suit” you mean female? Mom and I went on a little field trip together to early vote and we both went Pro-Vagina. Or Pro-Vag, as C. likes to say….
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)_presidential_primaries,_2008
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brokered_convention
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoke-filled_room