The Municipal Elections are on Saturday the 15th.

You should vote in them.

Why? (this is Aimed at Vancouverites)
- Municipal government affects your life directly and on a regular basis. You will feel its effects.
- The turnout in te last election was about 25%
- The difference between a win and lose in the last council election was 617 votes, and this carried across to Parks and School Board

I present to you My tentative Recommendations, based no the "Voters' Guide" that went to all mailboxes, knowledge of the parties, and a few of the candidates:

(Comment if I'm missing an important piece of information - I probably am.)


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A thank-you to Kynnin, Maus and Dennis for their exemplary hospitality, including, but not limited to, splendid food.

You know the story: the one-month-later wedding reception where the bride's boyfriend makes cookies with basil in them, and you sip yam and peanut soup while talking to one of your friends about how he feels about being one of several prospective donor fathers to a couple's child. Then your ex shows up with her boyfriends, and you wonder how it'll go because you've not really seen each other since you started changing your sex. You join in discussing the latest research on menstruation and eating disorders, you have some humus and pita with some perrier....

Perhaps I go on too long - it's a situation common to most of us is it not?

Or maybe you don't live in Vancouver.
I'm  feeling... good? Not sure why. Just am.

I was chastizing myself a little while ago for screwing around reading when there was real school-work and studying to be done. Then I realized that the book I was reading was a course text. This happened a couple of years back, when I realized that I shouldn't worry about recreating too much if my idea of recreation is "eat food; maintain homeostasis."

But if you're talking about real screwing around, you should walk North on Hastings until you get to the ramp that goes to the port. There's a path to a little park there. Perfect site for Wrapped in Grey. It even has a mysterious bubbling pool.

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