Accidental Democracy

Yesterday I was getting in the elevator when a cute girl got on next to me, and it wasn't the hot girl on our floor.  I was interested but it was so damn early in the morning--like 10:30--that I wasn't awake enough to do anything more than notice.

The Republican caucus I just had to go to was at 9:30.  In the morning.  On a Saturday!  I almost didn't go, because last night I was busy staying up late to bitch about linux and try to install the android sdk while watching a movie that I chose because Simon Pegg was in it which I did not realize was a chick flick until too late.  However by some miracle I was awake at 9 am so ten minutes later I managed to drag myself out of bed and drive to some high school. Because it was so early in the morning, I didn't bother showering to trying to dress nice.  I was more than halfway there when I realized there would probably be girls at this thing...and I was right.  So, next time you go to some political thing, remember that girls are into this, and try not to look like a poster child for sleep deprivation.

I was only going because a friend posted something on facebook about how there was something called a caucus saturday and the support Ron Paul you needed to show up and sign in.  Well...it turned out to be a little more complicated than that.  One thing led to another and...now I'm a republican delegate.  That means I have to go to another one of these.  Hopefully next time the number of people there will exceed the number of delegate positions avaialble to vote for, and I can just find someone else claiming to support Ron Paul, and vote for them to go to the next convention.

It actually wasn't that bad.  I was concerned that it would be like listening to one of my friends back home try to convince us that raising taxes on poor people would balance the budget, but actually everyone there was pretty reasonable.  Except for the beginning where people had to get in a huge hair splitting debate over what one phrase on the registration card meant.