How Conceded

Somehow, beyond all hope, the pres pulled out a victory. John Kerry recently made the "I promise I won't try to win by suing" call to Bush. This was surely not a landslide win, but it wasn't as close as I thought it would be (about 3 million votes). Could it be that some of the polls leading up to last night were…INACCURATE!! Maybe, but at this point it doesn’t really matter. Being in California means a vote for Bush has pretty much no use and I’m sure that can be disheartening to some but I did see some Republican power. The main demonstration of this came from The Governor of Hollyw-- I mean California. Schwarzenegger, aside from campaigning alongside Bush for a number of days, also backed/fought some controversial props and measures in the state. As far as I know, everything he endorsed was passed and everything he fought, lost. All except for two. I really don’t see what could stop him from running for President. Just watch, next election’s candidates will be Arnold Schwarzenegger for the Republicans and Hillary Clinton for the Democrats. I can’t wait.

Along with my electoral prerogative, I also partook in another one of my civic duties. The jury kind. Yes the much feared Jury Duty. I got the notice over a month ago and nearly forgot to go but I did and apparently the system is nowhere near as problematic as it used to be. I showed up the first day, a Monday, which I luckily had off from work and sat around for a few hours. When they called the 50 or so potential jurors to the court room I was one of the lucky first twelve to be scrutinized by the defense and prosecution. The next day I was also the first to be excused for whatever reason. I had no complaints, although it would’ve been interesting to check out the whole thing. But I did need to keep working so all’s well.

Last but not least, Band B has a battle of the bands show this weekend that I’m very excited about. Not only do I think we have a fairly good chance of winning but supposedly a couple of people who work for Universal Records are planning on checking us out. Apparently DJ Ferocious goes to school with the daughter of one of our Universal friends. She gave her mom the demo and now they want to see us live. This could potentially be a big deal so we want to do our best. Or at least blow the other bands out of the running. I’ll let you know if we get signed. Seriously.

Movie: The Ghost and the Darkness