Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

Plans for the day got scrozzled, mostly due to sleep issues, but compounded by looking at my to-do list, suddenly feeling terribly rushed on several fronts and winding up feeling scattered. Energy level has been ticking along at "functional but not especially alert" for a few hours; enough to handle editing some text but not enough to be aware of how much time is passing while doing so. I'd been getting nervous because I hadn't seen a sample ballot in the mail, but it finally arrived today ... and I realized there are some candidates for local offices I haven't done any research on and some ballot initiatives I wasn't aware of. Hope I don't wind up still looking for relevant info Monday night.

In case anyone's still unaware of it, or has been so intent on the presidential race that the House and Senate have fallen off the radar, I remind y'all of twistedchick's Congressional Evaluation Project:

"[...] most voters don't really know what their own representatives have been doing. Hence this project, a personal attempt to find out what all incumbent Congressmen and Senators up for re-election have done during the past few years so that voters can decide if they want to continue to support them. [...] This project uses the ratings of nonprofit organizations and lobbying groups to assess incumbents' voting records."

So if you want to quickly compare the "report cards" for your representative, from several different groups at once, here's a handy tool. (The reasoning behind her methodology is explained in more detail on the intro page.)

It's now the last minute and I got distracted from Hallowe'en/Samhain planning, which means probably recycling a previous costume idea unless inspiration strikes (and all relevant materials for the new idea happen to be handy). Fortunately I know where most of the parts of one or two costumes are.