I'm totally normal, except for my small teeth

Obama
Originally uploaded by 10bagspacking

This went up in our neighbors' yard over the weekend. The sign reads:

Hey, if you are wondering why this OBAMA sign is handmade, it's because someone keeps stealing our sign! You can steal our sign, but you can't steal our vote ... [something I can't make out] Florida in 2000. Vote for HOPE. Vote for CHANGE. (And leave our sign alone.)

Anyway, I appreciate the spirit in which the sign was made -- and, I swear, I haven't stolen their signs -- but, with much hemming and hawing, I ended up voting for Hillary. It was not an easy choice: I was arguing the matter back-and-forth with myself while driving to my polling location, and even when it finally came time to cast my vote. When I saw that Kucinich was on there, I nearly cast my ballot for him, in all honesty. But then I touched the screen for Hillary, my vote neatly recorded on the machine's paper scroll. Only ... then I wasn't so sure about it. So then I Obama. OVERVOTE! Whoops. The computer told me I'd have to un-choose her before I could vote for someone else. So I did. And then, when the time came to confirm my vote, I wavered again. Was I just giving in to peer pressure? I mean, yeah, the woman thing was one of the reasons why I've had a soft spot for her, but I like her health care plan better than Barack's, even though I have more respect for his stance on the war. Crap. Moreover, I want people to see that there is support for her ideas (again, that health care thing to me is HUGE), and that she's not fading away.

So, I changed my vote again. Hillary it was.

I have to say that I'm falling neatly in line with most of my fellow Ohioans, who -- according to a poll I saw on the Dispatch website yesterday but can't locate right now -- are voting for Hillary but think Obama will win the nomination and are OK with that. In some respects, truthfully, I sort of hope he wins over her, although in such a scenario, I would like her as his running mate. I like the optimism and energy he brings to all of this ... anyway, I'm going back to my waffling again. Must stop.

In other, non-election news, my mouth has *finally* stopped hurting, after days of steady aching following the creation of my temporary crown Saturday. Apparently, my problem is that I have small teeth (Hey, I'm short, I have a small head, this is to be expected), which makes the proceedure more painful. I have no idea, really, but that's what Kyle said, and he has a degree in that stuff. Crud. So, I'm now really conscious of my teeth, even if the New York Times thinks it could be part of the "advance guard of human evolution, at least in dentition" -- uh, just ignore the part about the story being written in 1988.