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+title: Tuesday
+date: '2008-11-04T15:50:27-05:00'
+permalink: /tuesday/
+tags:
+    - life
+    - politics
+    - 'random thoughts'
+---
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+It’ll no doubt shock everyone to hear that I’ve been starkly unproductive today. Weirdly unable to focus. Distracted. Nervous.
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+The good news is that I had errands to run, which allowed me to feel like I was accomplishing something, and a big stack of files to start sorting through.
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+And there was that voting thing. I decided to wait until after the polls had been open for an hour, hoping that the early birds would have worked through the system by that point. And I was mostly right, though there was still a 20 minute wait when I arrived, a wait easily four times longer than it’s ever been for me at this particular polling station. No problems at all once I got in; the poll workers were helpful and friendly, and the whole thing seemed to be working like it should. The line, though, was a little longer as I left than it was when I arrived.
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+Of course it was nowhere near as annoying as my trip to the doctor today, where I was taken into an exam room just a few minutes after my appointment time and then left sitting on a table, wearing a paper sheet, for 45 minutes before the doctor came in.
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+In my fantasy world, at least, the outcome of the former event might help fix the latter. So cross your fingers, folks.
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+Now I’m going to pretend to get some grading done, while calculating how long I have to wait before it’s reasonable to turn on the television.
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