Especially for Ohio residents! Ohio's legislature has almost passed a foul bill which will make voting much more difficult for many Ohioans, will make it easier for those in control of voting machines to manipulate election results, and will make it more difficult to challenge election results. The bill is currently in conference committee between the Ohio State Senate and Ohio State House of Representatives. The following link is to a petition asking Governor Taft to veto the bill. Please sign on!
Got my grades. I got A's in both classes. If my mother "happens to mention" that I could transfer to Loyola one more time, I'm going to tell her to get me an application, and then I'm going to tell her exactly what she can do with it.
I am officially registered for 11 credits at Oberlin at the moment, and I have the professor's guarantee for another three-credit course. I am registered for an intro to American politics class, a class on the role of the Supreme Court in American government, Number Theory, and the Practicum in Autism. homais is taking the Supreme Court class, which is really exciting. I've wanted to take a politics class with him since the beginning of last year. Woo! I will also be taking a course on American policy-making. Notice a theme, anyone?
And I found my Breaking Benjamin CD, which had been missing for about a week. Woo! Such a good CD. So good. Not as good as Jessa, but she's not a CD, so it's different.
And I went to the second meeting of the steering committee of the grassroots group that I joined. It was much better, probably because there were fewer people and greater unity of vision. We were productive. Yay for productive! There is hope yet. We adopted a working mission statement, and I had a large hand in developing the language. It goes thusly: "Grassroots Democracy is an organization composed of Democratic activists and others determined to revitalize the Democratic party. Our goal is to return political power to the American people by building a network of local grassroots movements. We welcome all committed to progressive ideals." We have a draft of a strategy statement, too, but that's a lot longer.
While I am doing surprisingly well for a Monday, and actually for a workday in general, one of the people who works in the coffee shop in my building seems to be having a shitty day. I think I'll try and toss a joke or two her way later today, but I'm not sure if I know enough one- or two-line, inoffensive jokes to be sure I won't offend her. If you know any, feel free to post them here.
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