In which my lunch was cuter than your lunch!

My bento box arrived yesterday. This morning I packed a lunch in it. (I didn’t feel creative enough to make a patriotic election day theme, but this person did.)

I truly adore my cute little bentō box. It’s tiny but it holds more food than you’d think. (Maybe the Tardis is part bentō!) If it’s not packed with solid dairy fat, it holds around 600 calories… which shall prove to be much better for me than, say, a 1200 calorie plate of Mexican food from across the street.

In other news, there is no poll voting in Walla Walla county. This means that I have failed to vote because I didn’t mail my ballot. I figured I could go vote in person today, but there’s nowhere to do so. (Apparently only two counties in the entire state of Washington still have poll voting, and I’m not in either of them.) I didn’t know any of this in advance because this is my first election day living in this state; I just learned about the no-live-voting thing before lunch when I was looking online for a nearby voting location.

I also don’t really care. I know that not caring about democracy is bad and wrong, and that every vote counts and that my participation is necessary, but I find politics to be a game I’m not interested in. Talking heads bug me. Political analysts make me tired; they’re all just a bunch of debate team freaks growing their egos talking on the telly. I do not believe a single thing that any politician says because due to the very nature of the system they cannot keep their word even when they want to. I happen to believe that the office of president cannot be held by a moral person; and that even if a moral person were to gain the office s/he’d have to do immoral things in order to get anything done. Like tic-tac-toe, it’s a game that simply cannot be won. Not that winning is the goal of all human endeavors, of course not, but compromises that allow evil or that fail to accomplish anything whatsoever? Pshaw. I’m not interested in it.

[No, it doesn’t escape me that I would likely be a lot more interested if I lived under a more unpleasant type of regime, which admission in and of itself is an argument in favor of the efficacy of the very democracy (or whatever it is that we have here – constitutional republic?) that I enjoy the freedom to ignore: I’m not a total idiot. I just don’t care for politics. Or beef tripe. Or country & western. Or raisins.]

Suffice it to say that if I had managed to vote today, I’d’ve voted Obama. Because what the hell, I’d much rather spend money on welfare than war.

Update: (I just wrote this in comments over at Brad’s and decided to re-post it here.) I can’t believe we’re all so pleased with ourselves for electing a black man in this year of 2008. You know, there are countries all over the world that have had blacks and even women at the helm! Imagine THAT! *rolleyes*