This week overall has not been a productive one for me,
writing-wise. I chipped away at Veritas
but still feel that I need to do more with the scenes I am working on before I
can move forward.
We are five and a half weeks into the school year, and I am
exhausted. Not because of the schooling—the teachers have been phenomenal and
my daughter is old enough to be pretty independent about her work. I am
perennially exhausted during the school year. My body clock and the real-world
clock do not sync well at all. As a result, I stay up too late because that’s
when I have my energy, and then only get about 6 hours of sleep on a good
night. During the summer, I never napped during the day, because I could sleep
as long as I needed, but these days when I have to get up with my daughter, I
find I crash into a power nap once a day.
I did get one big thing done this week: I voted! Here in New
Jersey, we are all vote by mail this year. We did it during the primaries, too,
as we were still deep in the worst of our pandemic first wave. We got our
ballots last week, and this week I filled mine in and dropped it off. The
nearest drop off to my house just happens to be the actual county elections
office, so I walked it right in and handed it over.
Please, if you are eligible to vote, do so. We have always
held America up as an example of a thriving democracy, but the reality for
years has been that we have more people who don’t vote than who do in most
elections. Even in Presidential election years, we are often hard pressed to
get more than 50% of the voters to the polls. Voter apathy is the single
largest danger to our democracy. Don’t like the choices you have? Vote for the
one closest to your beliefs, then spend the next election cycle finding and
supporting someone you like better. If we want a country whose representatives
more accurately reflect who we really are, we all need to get out there and
vote.
As John Lewis said in his final words: “Democracy is not a
state. It is an act.”
Get Out the Vote – CoronaLife Day 215
This week overall has not been a productive one for me, writing-wise. I chipped away at Veritas but still feel that I need to do more with the scenes I am working on before I can move forward.
We are five and a half weeks into the school year, and I am exhausted. Not because of the schooling—the teachers have been phenomenal and my daughter is old enough to be pretty independent about her work. I am perennially exhausted during the school year. My body clock and the real-world clock do not sync well at all. As a result, I stay up too late because that’s when I have my energy, and then only get about 6 hours of sleep on a good night. During the summer, I never napped during the day, because I could sleep as long as I needed, but these days when I have to get up with my daughter, I find I crash into a power nap once a day.
I did get one big thing done this week: I voted! Here in New Jersey, we are all vote by mail this year. We did it during the primaries, too, as we were still deep in the worst of our pandemic first wave. We got our ballots last week, and this week I filled mine in and dropped it off. The nearest drop off to my house just happens to be the actual county elections office, so I walked it right in and handed it over.
Please, if you are eligible to vote, do so. We have always held America up as an example of a thriving democracy, but the reality for years has been that we have more people who don’t vote than who do in most elections. Even in Presidential election years, we are often hard pressed to get more than 50% of the voters to the polls. Voter apathy is the single largest danger to our democracy. Don’t like the choices you have? Vote for the one closest to your beliefs, then spend the next election cycle finding and supporting someone you like better. If we want a country whose representatives more accurately reflect who we really are, we all need to get out there and vote.
As John Lewis said in his final words: “Democracy is not a state. It is an act.”
So act.
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