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Nov. 5th, 2008 10:17 pm
Guess 10+ years of seniority means squat
Well, as promised, I had to do my pub trivia night during the returns. Unfortunately, our trivia teams got bumped out of the bar and into the restaurant. I say 'unfortunately' because 1) we could not bring extra chairs for excess team members, 2) the room was kinda small, and most importantly, 3) I had no microphone, so I got to depend on my powerful diaphragm to belt out the questions and answers.
Things went okay...I started to hate the teams that repeated ask for repeats on questions because they either weren't listening, or they were working on other questions, or they left a blank open on their sheet and forgot which question they skipped. *rolling eyes* We had a team who showed up faithfully for weeks finally win a round, and some controversy due to a poorly-worded question on my part. *sigh* Wouldn't be trivia night if I didn't f**k up at least once.
The fun part was watching the conservative teachers (yes, they do exist) piss and moan about how we were going to become the Socialist States of America now. *rolling eyes again* We also had wild cheering going on in the bar when Obama was declared president. Um, guys, let's wait 'til he actually does something before we cheer or condemn, m'kay?
That being said, I just believe that the GOP put up their best man, it sucked hard, and now it's the other party's turn to see if they can clean up the mess.
As for voting, put me down for a 2 1/2 hour wait to vote. Good thing I took the day off. The geniuses (both of them--yes, there were only *two*) who file through the verification lists of the voters moved at the speed of slug. How do I know this? Because when I finally reached the end of my death march, there were 16 voting booths, waiting to be used. Thing was, only four were actually in use at any one time. Truly amazing.
I'm also betting there will be a lot more people voting absentee in four years. Just a guess.
Things went okay...I started to hate the teams that repeated ask for repeats on questions because they either weren't listening, or they were working on other questions, or they left a blank open on their sheet and forgot which question they skipped. *rolling eyes* We had a team who showed up faithfully for weeks finally win a round, and some controversy due to a poorly-worded question on my part. *sigh* Wouldn't be trivia night if I didn't f**k up at least once.
The fun part was watching the conservative teachers (yes, they do exist) piss and moan about how we were going to become the Socialist States of America now. *rolling eyes again* We also had wild cheering going on in the bar when Obama was declared president. Um, guys, let's wait 'til he actually does something before we cheer or condemn, m'kay?
That being said, I just believe that the GOP put up their best man, it sucked hard, and now it's the other party's turn to see if they can clean up the mess.
As for voting, put me down for a 2 1/2 hour wait to vote. Good thing I took the day off. The geniuses (both of them--yes, there were only *two*) who file through the verification lists of the voters moved at the speed of slug. How do I know this? Because when I finally reached the end of my death march, there were 16 voting booths, waiting to be used. Thing was, only four were actually in use at any one time. Truly amazing.
I'm also betting there will be a lot more people voting absentee in four years. Just a guess.
