I See Your Mouth Moving But All I Hear Is Blah Blah Blah

Argh, what the fuck? I thought I was over the plague, but apparently not, as I woke up this morning with a raspy, squeaky voice and a weird, painful sort of barking cough. DO NOT WANT. And I'm inclined to think it's the continuing saga of my epic cold from two weeks ago, rather than a new virus, because the congestion from before never went away and aside from the sore throat and the irritation that comes from trying to say hello and getting silence instead, I feel fine. Tired and stressed (yay midterms week!) but pretty much fine.

Man, if I'm not through with this soon, I am going to be so fed up with my immune system.

PS: the random insomnia does not help. Getting done with all my work so I can go to bed at decent hour for once accomplishes nothing if I then cannot fal asleep for an hour. EPIC FAIL.

On the bright side, html coding is /fun/. And someone in Scans_daily linked to the Iron Man DVD extras, which have, among other things, a screen test where Tony Stark basically tells a bunch of (male) marines that when they get back to the country they should drop by Stark Mansion for Fun Naked Times. And I am all for that, I really am.

A Short PSA On The Election

I voted today - that is, I mailed my New Mexico absentee ballot today. When the votes are counted on Nov 4, mine will be one of them.

This feels monumental to me. This is the first election I've been able to vote in; a lot of my friends voted in the midterm elections in 2006, but I was still 17 then, so I was stuck in the sidelines. It was almost as bad as the 2004 election - I was only 14, but it was incredibly frustrating to see the direction the country was heading and not be able to do anything about it. But this year, I can vote. This year, the country thinks I'm old enough that my opinion /matters/. And it's an amazing election to come of age for - an election that I believe is literally going to decide the direction our country goes in for the next five-ten years, maybe even longer. Twenty years ago, a black man in office would have been unthinkable, but today Barack Obama was leading in every major poll. The /Republican/ party is backing a female vice president.

My mom taught me that you only have the right to complain about what your country does if you express your opinion that it should do otherwise by voting. Democracy doesn't work if it only goes one direction; we have responsibilities too, and one of the most important is to vote.

I'm not going to tell you who to vote for: I know why I voted for Barack Obama today, and I assume if you like him, or McCain, or Cynthia McKinney, you know why you want to vote for them. But whoever you want to vote for, /do it/. Get out to the polls, or mail your ballot, or whatever.
We have the chance to really change this country, but that's not going to happen if we don't get out there and make ourselves heard.