There's Still Time to Suck Up
Nov. 7th, 2022 08:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mallorys_cameraBought a lottery ticket.
Bought three in fact. So now I’m totally on target to be $1.9 billion richer by this time tomorrow.
Still deciding where my winter home should be—California, I guess?—and whether I should donate the money so that Hyde Park can have a municipal sewer system. The local Depublicans and Remocrats are totally at odds over that one. On the one hand, the lack of a municipal sewer system has kept development out—no Walmart in FDR’s hometown! On the other hand, old septic tanks have rusty, rotten, broken lids and could start a cholera epidemic.
Of course, the kids will have a trust fund. And Sybyl will have a trust fund. And friends who have sucked up to me sufficiently will have trust funds.
And I am preparing complicated Edmond Dantes-esque revenge scenarios to inflict upon mine enemies.
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I had to track down the Board of Elections person to get my training materials for tomorrow.
First, she wrote me a long email about how her computer wasn’t working, so I would have to get the training materials from the Dutchess County dot guv site.
Except she gave me the wrong URL for the Dutchess County dot guv site.
When I emailed back to tell her she’d given me the wrong URL, she wrote another long email about how very, very difficult it was to add links to emails.
And still didn’t give me the right URL.
I pictured her as a 20-something whose lifetime immersion in social media had given her the impression that strangers deeply care about the minutiae of her life.
I am a stranger, and I do not care about the minutiae of her life!
It is a bit scary to think that people like her are in charge of electoral logistics.
Bought three in fact. So now I’m totally on target to be $1.9 billion richer by this time tomorrow.
Still deciding where my winter home should be—California, I guess?—and whether I should donate the money so that Hyde Park can have a municipal sewer system. The local Depublicans and Remocrats are totally at odds over that one. On the one hand, the lack of a municipal sewer system has kept development out—no Walmart in FDR’s hometown! On the other hand, old septic tanks have rusty, rotten, broken lids and could start a cholera epidemic.
Of course, the kids will have a trust fund. And Sybyl will have a trust fund. And friends who have sucked up to me sufficiently will have trust funds.
And I am preparing complicated Edmond Dantes-esque revenge scenarios to inflict upon mine enemies.
###
I had to track down the Board of Elections person to get my training materials for tomorrow.
First, she wrote me a long email about how her computer wasn’t working, so I would have to get the training materials from the Dutchess County dot guv site.
Except she gave me the wrong URL for the Dutchess County dot guv site.
When I emailed back to tell her she’d given me the wrong URL, she wrote another long email about how very, very difficult it was to add links to emails.
And still didn’t give me the right URL.
I pictured her as a 20-something whose lifetime immersion in social media had given her the impression that strangers deeply care about the minutiae of her life.
I am a stranger, and I do not care about the minutiae of her life!
It is a bit scary to think that people like her are in charge of electoral logistics.
The kids today
Date: 2022-11-07 03:32 pm (UTC)Re: The kids today
Date: 2022-11-07 03:38 pm (UTC)I suppose I'll meet her at some point tomorrow, though.
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Date: 2022-11-07 04:26 pm (UTC)Let the sucking up begin. And good luck with your numbers. :D
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Date: 2022-11-07 08:29 pm (UTC)Can it be that people think I won't win? 😀