Code Neon Blue!

My current words: I’m still alive.

You’ve all been to those events where you introduce yourself by standing up and saying three words that illustrate why you’re there, who you are, and so on, right? I used to point to my hair and say, “Turning Colorado blue!” (And whaddaya know, it worked!)

I managed to survive my county wide Voter Reg project, and to be brutally honest I was planning to pretty much coast from October 6 through the election, because I really didn’t think there would be much left to do. (I know, clearly I was deranged.) But everyone had caught fire, and new projects kept being proposed, new events kept being set up, and so for the last month my Three Words were a snarly “God, what NOW?!?!”

But here we all are. We not only survived, we did a whole lot of winning! Here in Prowers, our voter turnout was 72.61%, and 58 percent of that was Early or Mail-In voting, so NO ONE got disenfranchised this year because the lines were so long they couldn’t get in. The county still went roughly 2 to 1 in favor of the GOP, but we can work on that over the next two years. :)

I think it may take just a little while to adjust to semi-normal life, but I’ll do my best. For now, here is a really great song that helped get me through. It’s called “I Approve This Message", although a good alternate title would be “We, The People".

Hey, any song that mentions St. Molly of Austin and has lyrics like these:

“I am the precinct walker
I am the polling place volunteer
I am the statistician and 4 out of 5 of me approve this message….”

is a good song.