The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly

The Good: I think my voting precinct hit an unofficial record tonight. They were at 402 voters, and the most they've ever had, even in presidential election years, was 250. This is all anecdotal, from one of the poll workers. I thought I would be the "odd bird" as a Provisional voter, but there were 2 in front of me and 2 behind me, so I guess Provisional voting is the new Absentee voting. Although Absentee voting was supposed to be the new ballot box. So who knows where we're headed next?

The Bad: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/retirement/view/ Frontline's report on the sad state of retirement savings today. The last thing I need is to hear more bad news about how the middle class is getting pinched. Actually, it's possible that this is just the thing a lot of us need. I can say that my votes tonight went toward the candidates who seemed the most concerned with the issues of the middle class. I know it's very proletarian of me, and being proletarian is not en vogue these days. But I'd rather accept my fate and try to work toward a brighter day for all of us than live in denial, pretending that I'm part of the Bourgeoisie when I'm actually not.

The Ugly: I still cannot get my sleep habits under control. Sunday night, 2 Benadryl did the trick. Last night, 2 Benadryl caused me to oversleep through my alarm and be massively late to work. Tonight, I took 1 Benadryl and I've decided to talk to my doctor about Lunesta.