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Jun. 17th, 2004 01:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jawnbc. . . il faut que je voie mon chum. Oh, he's upstairs in his office. Never mind.
Things continue to move at a breakneck pace here in the antipodean zone. Today I couriered off my absentee ballot for the upcoming Canadian Federal election. We have a rather complicated system in Canada: ballots are marked by hand, in pencil with a clear mark next to the name of the candidate of your choice in your Federal riding (district). Or, in my case, I wrote the last name and first initial of my candidate of choice. Results are counted by handed, very quickly and about 90% of the ridings report their votes within a couple of hours of the polls closing. Recounts and disputes of that nature are minimized by having representatives of all registered parties with a canddiate in that riding allowed to act as scrutineers, who can question any unclearly marked ballots--and the scrutineers almost always arrive at a quick consensus.
For the record I voted socialist dyke this year: Libby Davies of the New Democratic Party.
In other news, we've picked a date and (tentative but pretty firm) venue for our wedding. Details to follow. By Oirish Catlick standards it'll be a smallish affair (<50), but lovely. As tradition dictates I've selected a hideously ugly, uncomfortable and expensive fabric for the bridesmaid's dresses. Which, in our case, will be chaps. If you've done a lot of acid in your past, you might decline our invite: we accept no responsibility for drug flashbacks.
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querrelle joins the 40 club. Plans are afoot....
Things continue to move at a breakneck pace here in the antipodean zone. Today I couriered off my absentee ballot for the upcoming Canadian Federal election. We have a rather complicated system in Canada: ballots are marked by hand, in pencil with a clear mark next to the name of the candidate of your choice in your Federal riding (district). Or, in my case, I wrote the last name and first initial of my candidate of choice. Results are counted by handed, very quickly and about 90% of the ridings report their votes within a couple of hours of the polls closing. Recounts and disputes of that nature are minimized by having representatives of all registered parties with a canddiate in that riding allowed to act as scrutineers, who can question any unclearly marked ballots--and the scrutineers almost always arrive at a quick consensus.
For the record I voted socialist dyke this year: Libby Davies of the New Democratic Party.
In other news, we've picked a date and (tentative but pretty firm) venue for our wedding. Details to follow. By Oirish Catlick standards it'll be a smallish affair (<50), but lovely. As tradition dictates I've selected a hideously ugly, uncomfortable and expensive fabric for the bridesmaid's dresses. Which, in our case, will be chaps. If you've done a lot of acid in your past, you might decline our invite: we accept no responsibility for drug flashbacks.
Tomorrow
querrelle joins the 40 club. Plans are afoot....
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Date: 2004-06-16 08:38 pm (UTC)Miscellaneous
Date: 2004-06-16 11:58 pm (UTC)2. Just to clarify the grammatical ambiguity, is that your bridesmaids (matrimonial attendants?) will be chaps wearing chaps, or chaps wearing dresses, or persons (of any gender) wearing chaps?
3. I've had so much fun in the last five years since passing the 40 barrier, that I wondered why I wasted the preceeding 39. All the best to Max.
Re: Miscellaneous
Date: 2004-06-17 12:04 am (UTC)2. chapped, but not necessarily chaps
3. so far my 3 months on this side of the slope have been pretty faboo
Re: Miscellaneous
Date: 2004-06-17 12:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-06-27 09:16 pm (UTC)Haahahaha!
After the dust settles, if I can remember (maybe you remind me?), I'll email her to say that someone LJ'd her from Oz.
stay well
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Date: 2004-06-27 09:45 pm (UTC)Do you know her personally?
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Date: 2004-06-28 03:03 am (UTC)I'm off the NDP headquarters for Alexa in a while.
cya at the finish line