Voting and being a bit of a bloodhound

In other news I did my civic duty today and voted in the Senate primary, while managing to not get lost trying to find the place! Considering what happened the last time I was in the same area as the polling place (mainly that I wandered around for the better part of an hour just trying to get back to a main street) that's a very good thing.

Also, apparently if I'd gotten off at Government Center this morning on the train I might have run into Michael Dukakis, but I went through Park St. instead. The main thing I know him for was the whole incident with the tank, which has become rather infamous around these parts.

Also played phone tag with a whole bunch of people at my job today, though I may actually be at the point where I'll get some straight answers to what I need to know. Once you get me on the hunt it's hard to get me off, so hopefully this'll actually work this time.

Woo hoo!

Go Martha Coakley! She's one step closer to being our senator. Looks like she pretty thoroughly won, though apparently not too many people turned out for this primary, which is a shame just in terms of the electoral process, and I'm the only person in my immediate circle of friends here in Boston that I know voted today. The Globe actually interviewed several Bostonians about why they didn't vote, and though the rest are understandable the first girl (linked here) really irritates me. A lot of people my age seem to be like that, and I get a bit slap-happy when I hear that reasoning. Half of life is just showing up and it took me longer to get to the polling place than to actually vote!

I saw speculation earlier today that the gay vote might make a difference in this election, and I wonder if that's the case. Over the next few days we'll probably hear more, but I know that her suing the federal government over DOMA on behalf of the Commonwealth as the Attorney General certainly helped win me over to her side. That wasn't all of it, but it got me to pay attention to her and find out more about her, and the other guys just failed to convince me to jump ship for them. In reality all of the Democrats in this race were very similar with only a few differences, but knowing her record on doing concrete things towards gay rights was one of the deciding factors for me. A lot of people seem to agree!

Interestingly, I don't recall seeing too many ads of hers on the air while the others guys (or more accurately, mostly Capuano) had a lot, though it might just have been the stations I watch.

So yay for Irish ladies! When we're around, ass gets kicked.