words and elections

It's quite an election isn't it? I'm probably a mean mother not to let my kids sit up and watch results. I remember when Reagan was elected and I sat up until maybe midnight (and my parents were really into the early bedtime thing--maybe it wasn't that late, but it was waaaaay later than I was normally allowed to be up). It was exciting. But this is more maybe because it's not just a social studies project? I'm a little peeved that CNN lists the Arkansas senator and representative for my area as running unopposed, because they're not. The Democrat incumbent is being challenged by a Green (with 20% of the vote so far), and the Republican incumbent is also being challenged by a Green (with nearly 25% of the vote so far). That's a lot of people who don't want someone to win so much that they are willing to vote for an unknown. I wonder why so many seats are unopposed this year here. (There are other more local ones like that, too.)

Completely unrelated, I got just over 700 words today! Three months must be another one of those growth spurts, because Lap Boy has wanted food every waking minute (and most of them have been just that--waking). But there was a small gap of naptime in there, and I imported some random scenage into the scene it goes into, and most of all my head is there in that book, even if the writing itself is going slowly. If you write even as little as 100 words a day, you will be able to eventually pull yourself in. (That's not a promise, just an observation.)

I'm going to tiptoe around barely-sleeping Lap Boy and see if I can write a bit more, now that the big kids are all asleep. Happy tallying!