Mailed My Absentee Ballot Friday: Waiting Game

What now? It's just a waiting game.

We've been barraged with election coverage; albeit petty and sensationalist rather than of substance and issues. On Friday, after my absentee ballot was carefully taken by Todd the postal worker, I felt a sense of accomplishment only comparable to checking another item off my list of todo's. OK, so I walked over to the County Courthouse where local early voting was in progress, claimed my "I voted today" sticker, and promptly applied as directed.

Result: temporary sense of accomplishment and satisfaction.

It's out of my hands now.

• How can I be assured my vote will make it to the great State of Florida?
• If it does make it to the Broward County Board of Elections, will it get counted?
• If counted, will the election be stolen again?

I've stopped my daily check on the coverage on MSNBC, even skipping my beloved Rachel Maddow. I'll distract myself until the results are in, or any legal processes are complete and a winner is declared.

I've got a great idea for distraction. Looking forward to a local live music event, I visited the site of the group "Blame Sally". They have been recognized for a great music video. Here is the songwriter's recollection of writing the video's featured song:

“If You Tell a Lie”
Produced and Directed by Jonathan Halperin. Photographed and filmed by Tom Erikson, Jonathan Halperin and David Winton. Edited by Stephanie Mechura Challberg

On January 20th, 2001, George W. Bush, appointed President of the United States formally took office. I had been asked to sing a song that night at the Bazaar Café in San Francisco where Les, the proprietor was producing a counter-event called “The Night of the Burning Bush”. That afternoon, depressed and restless, I couldn’t make myself practice the song I intended to sing, Bob Dylan’s “Masters of War”. Instead, I sat down and turned on the TV. I had honestly forgotten that I would be subjected to live coverage of the inaugural parade. It was a bleak day in Washington, and I remember experiencing an overwhelming feeling of sadness and fear as I watched the Presidential limousine drive down Pennsylvania Avenue. I turned off the TV, sat down at the piano and wrote this song in about 25 minutes. I performed it for the first time that night. Last spring, I wrote an additional verse that addresses the war in Iraq and we recorded the new version of the song for this video.
— Monica Pasqual, Blame Sally