Inactive

That was my voter status since I have been shamefully slack. I mean, normally, there is no chance Manhattan would ever go Republican, but I cannot stand That Other Guy so much that I made it a point to go vote early.

But apparently not early enough.

This was the line @ 7:50am, and it was despite the fact that our polling station was prepared and had set up another room in a second building as well, to handle the turnout. (My engineer voted in Jersey City at 6:30am...and was already #61 in line.)

Luckily, the electoral workers were all very well organized and came out to get people from the different districts who needed to go on different lines, etc. Unfortunately, that still didn't make my wait shrink to less than 90 minutes, so I was quite late for work. Oops. Oh well. (Since everyone in my department votes, and since I sent them THIS photo @ 8am, they were blase.)

In any case, I had checked on my voter registration status online yesterday & came prepared with the various proofs of ID needed, and voted the old fashioned way: by paper ballot. Hooray! I am now officially "active"...and likely to get summoned for jury duty. Heh.

When I left the polling station to go to work (at 9:30...) my cellphone company text messaged me, warning that I was exceeding my usage on my monthly calling plan. I got to the office and called customer service (one of the proofs of ID was a utility bill, and now I KNOW why there's that commercial about insanely confusing wireless billing statements) since I could not imagine adding my mother to my plan would change the usage that much.

Since October 15th, my mother has used 893 minutes! That's 14.8 hours! I feel like I have a teenager on my family plan. She and I had A Little Talk at lunchtime and I also changed my calling plan to 1,400 minutes/month. Ouch.

I'm going to actually go try to do some work now (while I still HAVE a job...so I can pay for the phone bill!) since I have eaten and calmed down from my calling plan calamity. Sheesh.