Half the fun of voting lies in strutting around smugly with an ‘I Voted’ sticker on my chest but I wasn’t taking any chances this year. I just gave my ballot to the mailman and I prayed to all the gods to watch over it on its journey. May it arrive intact, may it be counted. Amen.

By the way, I really and truly despise WordPress’s new layout/formatting tools. Hopefully I’ll get used to them. In other writerly news, I’d completely lost my mojo but I’m starting to come back to life now that the heavy swelter of summer is over. I aten’t dead, yet!