Birthday
Thursday 5th May 2011 8:32 pm
For my birthday I got:
- A bookmark with bunnies on
- Press Gang series 1 on DVD
- A Big Finish audio with Peter Purves narrating
- A pile of Mercedes Lackey and Chalet School books
- A referendum
- Two local council elections
People at work think I should be celebrating by going out to dinner, which is always a stressful experience. I think they're odd. I did my celebrating at the weekend. And also I got to vote - not too many people get a bank holiday and an election for their birthdays.
Voting was interesting. It was at the Arts Centre and I went around the time a childrens' ballet class was about to start, so there were all these kids around in tutus and their parents. I was on the side that didn't have a queue, as usual.
First there was the referendum one, which was grey and went in one ballot box. Then there was the district council one, which was white and I got to put two crosses on and in a different ballot box. Then there was a long green cardboardy one for the parish council, where I got to put five crosses! The bloke handing out the sheets was quite amusing because when he came to the last one he said "now you've got the hang of two crosses, you get to do five" or something along those lines.
Given the news I'm not getting up my hopes for the referendum to give me a voting system where my vote might actually count in a way that's not purely tactical. The council elections were the first ones times I've ever voted and not known who to vote for. I was going to base it on who lived in the town and that turned out to be all of them. Then I looked at where exactly they lived, but then I would have ended up voting Conservative. The parish one was easy because there were ten candidates, five from two parties, one of which I refuse to vote for. But the district one had two candidates each from three parties, so I voted for the people I didn't vote for for the parish council. At least the county council wasn't in this election too...
An on the subject of voting, here's a video that explains AV for cats.
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