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oh. /waves/ Hi. I've hit the deep winter phase of my hibernation, I guess. Although I *am* indeed noticing and pleased about the extra minute.some of sunlight each day.
(Yay.)

Let's see.... man, where are the bullets?

- needless snafus costing time and money during holiday trip? Check.
- utterly confused body clock, requesting more sleep please? Check.
- squicky icky winter cold, run out of Kleenex, nose rubbed raw? Ub,Cheg.
- icky picky work project-to-make-one-ready-to-spork-out-own-eyeballs? Check.
- stress dream about election fraud? Check.

Seriously. I think I had a dream about election fraud. Or you tell me. Maybe it was about sex. Hard to say.

The premise (but not the majority of the action) in the dream was that the government had decided that 10 states were no longer worth keeping. So, they were going to be burned up. Completely. Like, on a map there would just be a hole. And the earth would fall away of you crossed the wrong state line. But, my mom and I found out ahead of time. (They weren't going to tell anyone ahead of time to avoid the riots and mass exodus...) Anyway, most of the dream consisted of unpacking gewgaws and tchotchkes we don't have from a kitchen storage wall we also don't have, and trying to decide what should be brought along even though in this dream we had apparently also ceded the entire back seat of the hatchback (we don't have!) to a couple of friends, and maybe their baby? dog? stuff? we were going to help escape.

Friends, *everything* was tchotchkes. And every tchotchke had a story, of personal significance or historical/cultural worth. And so we, LP and I (where did my mother go?) and occasionally a neighbor, or really polite looter-- there were 3 or 4, passing through the kitchen had to consider the importance of bringing or leaving behind each item. Was it too big? too heavy? could it be used for something practical as well? was worth bringing anyway? What other items would it prevent us from bringing? And where oh where were the ziploc bags?

I can't even begin to unpack most of this dream. But, I am pretty sure that the background situation in it relates to the primaries going on RIGHT NOW! And, the fact that we still have not figured out the electronic voting/reliable system thing yet, and hey, elections are only NINE MONTHS AWAY! Are you concerned? I am.

If you are, and if you don't get email from MoveOn, go to Moveon.org to sign the current petition to light a fire under your representatives, so that maybe, maybe, we can trust the voting outcome this time around.