Voting (Prep)

To some of you, this will make perfect sense: anticipating the possibility of waiting in line to vote, last night I made sure my sock was at a good place for knitting standing up. I was getting close to where I would have to turn the heel, and though that doesn't freak me out any more, I still need to check the pattern versus my memory; plus, I'd rather not be juggling stitch markers if I don't have to. So, last night after stitch and bitch*, I measured, decided it was heel time, and proceeded to turn it.

*It might seem like working on knitting at my knitting group would have been the way to go. But although I am perfectly comfortable knitting in public, trying on a sock in a restaurant is slightly outside my comfort zone. So I worked on something else there, and flashed my foot at home. And now over the internet. But that's different!

Turning the heel is my favorite part of sock knitting. To take a tube, three dimensional only to the very literal, and make it turn a corner, well, it still gives me a thrill. I can remember in the sock knitting class I took a few years ago, getting through the first heel and being flabbergasted. Look what it did! I didn't understand the directions at all, so I was blindly following them, and OMG my knitting turned a corner! Just like that!

It's pretty cool even now.

To everything, turn, turn, turn...

And I think the fit will be just about right. Since my most recent socks, which I'm wearing now as a matter of fact, are too big, I'm trying to get closer without overcompensating on this pair.

Anyway, as we all could predict, being ready to wait meant I didn't have to. I just walked the three blocks over there*, and although there's a steady stream of people moving through, no line. I never took the knitting out of my bag, and I was home again in 20 minutes.

*Another small benefit to being out of work: mid-morning voting!

My ballot was number 410 in that machine (of the two machines at that polling place) at 10:15 AM. I hope that's a good sign! The weather today is beautiful, sunny and 50s, so that should help, or at least not hinder, the turnout.

In conclusion, I would like to say this:

Thanks, Robyn! This fits the bill perfectly today.

Edited to add: I turned on Comedy Central, which is running reruns of The Daily Show and the Colbert Report today, and there's a ticker running along the bottom of the screen. I squinted at my non-huge TV screen, and read, "Our ticker can beat up CNN's ticker."

I love Comedy Central.