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Rambly bits
Sep. 18th, 2002 12:17 pmIt's been a crazy week or so, which explains my lack of new entries. This time of year on the Jewish calendar is always nuts. So if I disappear for a bit, don't worry.
We had a primary yesterday. I'm registered unenrolled (what the rest of the country would call Independent), so for the week leading up to the primary, MAB and I were inundated by phone calls from all the candidates encouraging us to go vote for them. We got about 4 calls from the Kerry Healy's campaign; she's a Republican who was runn ing for Lieutenant Governor (she won, but not because of me) (note for non-MA folk - as part of the weirdness that is our state government, we vote separately for Governor and Lieutenant Governor, often leading to Governors who detest their second-in-comm ands). We got calls from Robert Reich, Shannon O'Brien, Warren Tollman (whom I actually got a chance to meet last Monday morning in the Harvard Square T station; he was there at 7:25 AM), and Tom Birmingham, all of whom were Democrats running for Governor. We got a couple of calls from Mitt Romney (Republican for Governor; some asking for us to go vote for him, some asking for us to go vote for Kerry Healy). We were feeling quite popular.
Problem is, none of the candidates - Democratic or Republican - really excited me. I had the hardest time deciding for whom to vote, and even as I stood in the voting booth I hadn't completely decided. I almost voted for the guy who had already quit the race about a month or two ago (I apparently wasn't alone in this line of thought; the non-candidate got 1% of the final vote).
In the end, Shannon O'Brien beat the rest of the Democrats, but not by an exceedingly wide margin (final results were O'Brien, 33%; Reich, 25%; Birmingham, 24%; Tollman, 18%; Grossman, 1%). I just hope that this time (unlike 4 years ago) the Democrats unite in their support of O'Brien and don't split the party (didn't they ever play D&D as kids? Rule #1 - Don't split the party!).
Now that the voting is over, I turn my brain to other thin gs - like the next holiday, coming this weekend. So tonight on my way home from work I have to go to the Israel Book Shop and buy lulav and etrog for my parents, who just got back from spending Rosh HaShannah and Yom Kippur with my sister in Maryland. Since MAB and I live essentially behind the Book Shop, I frequently get sent on errands there. The clerks no longer look at me funny for buying multiple sets of things for any given holiday...ΒΆ
We had a primary yesterday. I'm registered unenrolled (what the rest of the country would call Independent), so for the week leading up to the primary, MAB and I were inundated by phone calls from all the candidates encouraging us to go vote for them. We got about 4 calls from the Kerry Healy's campaign; she's a Republican who was runn ing for Lieutenant Governor (she won, but not because of me) (note for non-MA folk - as part of the weirdness that is our state government, we vote separately for Governor and Lieutenant Governor, often leading to Governors who detest their second-in-comm ands). We got calls from Robert Reich, Shannon O'Brien, Warren Tollman (whom I actually got a chance to meet last Monday morning in the Harvard Square T station; he was there at 7:25 AM), and Tom Birmingham, all of whom were Democrats running for Governor. We got a couple of calls from Mitt Romney (Republican for Governor; some asking for us to go vote for him, some asking for us to go vote for Kerry Healy). We were feeling quite popular.
Problem is, none of the candidates - Democratic or Republican - really excited me. I had the hardest time deciding for whom to vote, and even as I stood in the voting booth I hadn't completely decided. I almost voted for the guy who had already quit the race about a month or two ago (I apparently wasn't alone in this line of thought; the non-candidate got 1% of the final vote).
In the end, Shannon O'Brien beat the rest of the Democrats, but not by an exceedingly wide margin (final results were O'Brien, 33%; Reich, 25%; Birmingham, 24%; Tollman, 18%; Grossman, 1%). I just hope that this time (unlike 4 years ago) the Democrats unite in their support of O'Brien and don't split the party (didn't they ever play D&D as kids? Rule #1 - Don't split the party!).
Now that the voting is over, I turn my brain to other thin gs - like the next holiday, coming this weekend. So tonight on my way home from work I have to go to the Israel Book Shop and buy lulav and etrog for my parents, who just got back from spending Rosh HaShannah and Yom Kippur with my sister in Maryland. Since MAB and I live essentially behind the Book Shop, I frequently get sent on errands there. The clerks no longer look at me funny for buying multiple sets of things for any given holiday...ΒΆ
