This week had already been a trying one, with a major midterm election on Tuesday and lots of our local races still too close to call. I didn’t work too much on the election on Election Day, but I did go in early on Wednesday and pretty much worked on nothing else but election follow-up. I went home that day, rather exhausted but still kind of overwrought from working on the election, and went to bed at around 10:30 p.m. — late for waking up for a 4 a.m. shift, I know, but that’s what happens when you have kids.
The first middle-of-the-night calls started around 1:23 a.m. You know when was the last time I got middle-of-the-night calls and voicemails? Immediately after the Las Vegas shooting.
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Two protestors walk into a bar…
That’s not really what happened, but there was a story today that had me in giggles for most of the morning. Basically, at a health care reform vigil and counter-protest, in Thousand Oaks of all places, a pro-health care reform guy approached an opponent, the opponent felt threatened and threw a punch, a fight ensued, and a finger was bitten off. The pro-health care reform dude, reportedly from MoveOn.org, bit off a piece of a 65-year-old man’s pinky. How gross is that? And….ironic. And…funny! I couldn’t help making jokes for at least 20 minutes, which I posted on Twitter.
My emergency room adventure
As I Twittered tonight’s NBA championship game, (WHOOOO LAKERS!), which happened to be not as fervent and anxious as my Game 4 Tweets (partly because I’m at home, not work, and partly because I could just feel that the Lakers were going to seal it up in Orlando), I casually mentioned I had to go to the emergency room last night. My tweets, which feed into my Facebook status updates, immediately got several inquiring comments as to why and am I OK. I’m fine. I just find it hilarious I had to go to the emergency room for what was essentially a severe allergic reaction.