Time to make the president!

WOO! YEAH! IT'S TIME TO GET MY VOTE ON!

Which is to say, I got my absentee ballot in the mail last night. It's great! It really is! Here, let me walk you through it: The envelope includes the stuff you would expect: a ballot, an envelope to send it back in, a booklet that tells you the names of the candidates, so you aren't left voting for your favorite numbers. Yeah, that's right; you don't get no fancy special ballot with the names written out for you to check or circle or anything, which I assumed for no real reason, you get the same old ballot as everyone else, which brings me to all the awesome stuff that comes with. The most useful would probably be the little plastic magnifying lens to better observe the teeny-tiny little numbers. Neat! As nearsighted as I am, I don't need it; I have glasses thicker than my head, I could count the very fiber in the paper if I look close enough. Still, very nice of them to provide for me.

The most amazing thing of all, however, is the little round paperclip they call a 'punching tool' but we all know as a 'chad whacker'. Yeah, it really is a paperclip, just bent into a ring-size circle with a put sticking out to punch through the little holes. [Insert obvious hanging chad joke HERE]

I don't know, maybe it's just because this is the first presidential election I'm voting in, or maybe the absentee ballot really is that awesome. Whatever. I have the better part of a month to get this thing filled out and sent away: I begin tonight! Whee!