Whoops, forgot a title....

Augh, the scratches on the back of my leg have to get worse before they get better. This suuuuuucks; it'll take at least a week to heal up enough for proper medicine. Can't wait to get to a dermatologist one day and see what I can do about this because it's awful. I'm sorry, that was gross.

So I voted today. Just once -- just once -- I would like to vote without hearing someone tell someone else how to vote, or without someone seeing my ballot. I'm pretty sure both of those things happened today. New York used to have clunky old voting booths that were surrounded by a curtain. Might not have been the best way of doing things, but it was private. Now we've got electronic scanners, which supposedly increase the accuracy of the votes, but when anyone can look over my shoulder as I'm feeding my ballot to the scanner, as well as when I'm actually filling it out! It's very uncomfortable, and it gives me a creepy feeling almost as if people could see me naked. Now, I'm not sure that that happened today, but considering the scanner failed to read my ballot the first time I tried it (because I was too busy trying to cover it) and someone had to help me with it... yeah. Not to mention the booth that I filled it out in isn't surrounded by a curtain but was kinda facing an odd direction so that anyone who walked past and was tall enough -- and you don't have to be very tall with me -- could have looked over my shoulder. It's so gross.

And then there was that poor woman who'd never voted in New York before and didn't know how to use the e-ballots; the woman behind me in line told her to vote "yes" on all the State Constitution Amendment proposals and for all the Democrats, and then had the nerve to get snippy with me for telling her she ought not do that! "Me no care," she proclaimed loudly, in a heavy Jamaican accent. Like, lady, please stop talking because you're like a walking parody. Oh my gosh. I know she was about to say something about how young she thought I was when I was called to scan my ballot. Ick.

I picked up a croissant at Dunkin' Donuts nearby and got to watch a woman on line ahead of me complain about how the doughnuts she bought weren't soft enough, and get all rude with the people behind the counter. And she told them off! Whoops, sorry, lady, I'm gonna go back there and make a bunch of fresh doughnuts now just for you because that's obviously how this place works. Augh. I also got some Reese's cups at the store next door because I haven't had chocolate in a while, despite Halloween having been last week.

At least I got some nice pictures of the sweet gum trees out in front of a neighbor's house. One of them was showing all sorts of colors; another had a little sprig of leaves growing out of the trunk about halfway up. So cute! ♥ i probably won't ever remember to upload them though whoops

Also this. :D Next time I head out, I'm TRYING this.

Rangers aren't playing tonight but the Canucks are currently tied at two, after two, in Phoenix.