Election Day

I have never been very good at the school subject termed "social studies." History, Geography, Government, Economics. I find it difficult to get into these things. Nevertheless, I took both AP Government and AP Microeconomics my senior year of high school. I got a passing 3 on the Econ exam even though our teacher told us throughout the semester that she wasn't going to teach us "utils" (a unit for measuring utility) because they wouldn't be on the exam...and then they were on the exam. I got a not passing 2 on the Gov exam which is still remarkable because it is not the lowest score possible and I wrote all my essays in haiku form. A particular point of pride is the fact that before going into the exam everyone from our class agreed to work the made-up court case "Kramer vs Crosby" into one of the essays and I was able to do this even though I was writing in verse.

This same year many of my good friends and classmates decided that they were interested in things like politics and they created SPAC, the "Student Political Action Coalition." As a budding student group they needed all the members they could get, and they asked me to join. Meetings had snacks and didn't last too long, so, why not?

The big project SPAC undertook that year was setting up tables in the lunch room where students could register to vote. They asked me to register (I would be turning 18 before the next election). But lunch period was so short that I didn't really want to spend any of it not eating. Worst SPAC member evar.

Six years later I'm voluntarily reading about Roman history, World War II, and I am not only registered, but I voted! But I still write the occastional haiku.

I hope everyone voted for Ginger Cat!