Culinary delights and absentee voting

January 28th, 2008 • chatter

What a busy night it’s been! I’d been cooking, on and off, since about 5:30PM and trying to find the appropriate absentee ballot for the Super Tuesday voting going on in my home state. I made a succulent dinner of pan-seared chicken and lamb, organic snapped green beans with sugar, tasty baby carrots and what was supposed to steamed broccoli but turned out to be broccoli for geriatrics. It was my first foray with our new pressure cooker so I was disappointed by the broccoli –which I’d hyped myself up to eat all week– but floored by the carrots. One out of five dishes isn’t a bad screw up, I’ve done much worse in the past! We’ve got enough chicken and green beans for leftovers tomorrow and I think my girlfriend will be cooking up the carrots with a honey glaze or something similar.

I’ve also been on the search for the proper absentee ballot for my home county which has resulted in me finding two ballots: a sample one and the actual absentee ballot. I find the absentee ballot odd because it lacks any candidates, only straight party voting. So how am I going to vote for Ron Paul when I check off “Republican”? Or should I be sly with some magic of photoshoppery and merge the two to make a useful ballot? I’ve got my dad in search of the real ballot so hopefully I can actually exercise my right to vote properly.

Tomorrow means I get to finally return to class after a week off due to MLK Day and the debates from Thursday. I’m not looking forward to going right now but it’s also 12:30AM and the only thing I’m looking forward to is sleeping. Luckily, I’ve got my paper written and I plan on plowing through my chapter of The Ancestor’s Tale Tuesday night if not tonight. But I’m just not terribly in the mood to drag my laptop into bed to make notes and I can’t seem to find my pen so I could write my notes, a problem indeed.

I think I’m going to go to bed, I lost all train of thought.