...and now she dead from vote.

[active_apathy]

So, showers. The shower is meant to be a peaceful place, a calm and peaceful place from which you emerge happy and clean.

This morning, I had spiders in my shower. There were two that I noticed right away - a huntsman, for they are big, and a white-tail, for they are evil. And they were there, both of them, on the floor of the shower, just kind of staring at each other.

There's me, armed with nothing, just kind of staring at these spiders in a fuzzy half-awake state of sleeeeeepiness, and that's when I notice: there's another fuzzy looking little dot in the middle that doesn't belong. A fuzzy little dot with eight tiny little legs, exactly halfway between the big spiders who - quite obviously - had things to sort out between themselves like custody arrangements and who gets to keep the web.

So, I did the only sane thing it's possible to do when faced with the Albus Severus of the arachnid world - backed away slowly, went and had a cup of tea, and quietly hoped they'd disappear before I went back.

(They did.)



Also! As an alternative to the previous election post (and because voting queues are really quite dull), I have a summary of the electoral process in a form more appropriate to the Internets.

OMG constitution bling bling.
THIS IS DEMOCRACYYYYYYYYYY!!1!11!!!1!
Someone set up us the polls.
That'll give you, er, voters.
Got ballots?
I'm in ur booth, electin' ur candidates.
My candidates iz votede on yey.
The ballots, let me not show you them.
At PM 6:00, counting was beginning.
I, for one, welcome our new overlords-elect.¹

And that's about it for now. Creepy spiders. Creepy.

1. Unless they're the Coalition's overlords-elect, in which case there is no welcome.

Comments

[deepbluemermaid.livejournal.com]

So your previous election post made me smile in places (the recurring DO NOT WANT theme, among other things), but this one had me laughing out loud.

Best of luck for the election results - my sister in Tasmania has no doubt been campaigning vigorously for the Greens, so I support them for her sake. Otherwise, Labor FTW. From the Kiwi perspective, I imagine our PM Helen Clark would be rather happier dealing with Rudd than Howard!

Random fact of the day for you: aged approximately 9, I wrote a satirical story about Bob Hawke, David Lange, Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher. They were participating in the world gumboot throwing championships (a real event) and of course David Lange won. I was a precociously political child, but also patriotic!

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Well, it's nearly 1am, so: SQUEE!

SQUEEEEEEEEE!!!!!

Um, yes. Done now. SQUEEE!

And maybe David won, but Bob would've come back strongly in the drinking competition afterward. :D

[deepfishy.livejournal.com]

*points to earlier post*

Clearly, a war of attrition.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Of course.



Two by two, feet of blue, two by two, feet of blue, two by two...

[palmer-kun.livejournal.com]

• You have no chance to vote make your time
  
• All your ballot are belong to Coalition
  
• Gee, sure would be nice if we had some BALLOTS
  
• You know what? Ballots fall, everybody votes
  
• Shouldn't you be off bringing democriocity to the fuzzy-wuzzies or somesuch?
  Oh, I've got candidates aplenty right here.
  
• Also? I can elect you with my vote.
  
• Hallo. My name is active_apathy. You elect the Coalition. Prepare to die¹
  
• I want these motherfucking votes on these motherfucking ballots!
  

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1. Via aerosol n. fasciitis, of course

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Hee, yes, but I wanted to keep the narrative in there, and now have quite satisfactory overlords-elect.

[laurenmitchell.livejournal.com]

No, you can't has multiple votes. Not yours.

I didn't actually get asked if I had voted in this election before; the guy was sensible, since at that point I had been in line for forty minutes and there was NO sausage sizzle; stupid new electorate, my old electorate had a sausage sizzle *sulks*.

The Virtual Tally Room results keep going back down and then up again, which confuses me; I can only wonder what's going on to make that happen.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

Mine. For me, not for you.

*gasp!* No sausages? I promise that my party will make sure no voter ever has to go without a sausage-inna-bun ever again!

They open new boxes of ballots, count the ballots, and amend their projections accordingly. It makes sense in some places more than others, but that's basically what happens: the percentages and the preferences for the counted vote fluctuate, but (usually) slowly tend toward whatever the actual result is.

[palmer-kun.livejournal.com]

Better no sausages than sausage-inna-bun by CMOT Dibbler

[captainsblog.livejournal.com]

You know this must be metaquoted. It is merely a question of by whom.

All that stands in my way at present is deciding whether the footnoted line is part of the quote proper or not.

I defer to your brilliance, which, unfortunately, we can't see in this hemisphere.

[active-apathy.livejournal.com]

According to the best guesses at the moment, we have thoroughly satisfactory overlords-elect.

Even without that, the footnote isn't really necessary; it was mostly an aside for those who know Australian politics well enough to get it - and, if all else fails, we live in a world with flippable coins.

[kdsorceress.livejournal.com]

Bahahah. That's awesome. I am in love with your meme-basterdizing view of politics.

~Sor