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Yes indeed. Tomorrow will be quite the experience. Every 4 years my high school cancels school, but requires us to come in anyways to continue America's second oldest tradition� voting. The first of course is that we moan and bitch about not getting what we want. From that came the electoral process which solved the problem of bitching about problems within the country (to some extent), but gave and still gives the citizens something else to gripe about, like the Florida fiasco in the last Presidential election and the "Oh my God he did not just go there!" scandal in the 1493 election. Now a group of 1000 immature high school students will do their civil duty and participate in a mock election. Issues Day actually does provide some important insights which can be applied to the overall voting population across the country, the most important of which is that they just don't care. National voter paticipation among eligible voters has not risen above 60% since the 1968 elections and there is little or no indication that that is about to change because of so polarized an election as this one. The ones who plan on voting merely speak out loudly; there really isn't a large group of people who care enough to make any noise about any cause political or otherwise. This is certainly true of my high school where, on the last Issues Day, Ralph Nader swept the entire Senior class's vote after his announcement that, if elected, he would legalize marijuana. Well I suppose that at least got them to the ballots.

Aside from that college preparations are really heating up. I need to write an essay to one of my teachers so she can write my letter of recommendation and then I have to get my college admission essay from another teacher and revise that until it surpasses the expactation of Mr. Edward Engrish himself, creator of the Engrish language. (In case you are wondering, his name was changed to English on Ellis Island, and that is where we get the word "engliamatarion" meaning one who engliamates.) I think my the former is actually shaping up pretty well, better maybe than even my admission essay. I dunno. I'll let my teacher decide that. But I just want a break from all this college pressure which according to my pressurometer is right now about 13 Terrapascals, which according to numerous professionals in the field of pressuronomy is just under the amount necessary to cause 13.1 Terrapascals pressure.

Hm, I just used the find feature of Firefox 1.0PR and it is nifty to the max. I wasn't planning on dowloading it at home because then I'd have to open the library and import all my settings and extensions and whatnot, but I think I may just do that. It has a new highlight feature which I greatly desire.

But I digress. And now I depart. Expect a full report on Issues Day within the next whenever. Oh, but before I forget, I'm considering dropping this blog altogether as I don't appear to be getting as many readers as I used to. Or at least far fewer comments. On second though, I like to blog here, so I'll just keep it anyways.

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