wow. so long day today. it started at about 5:45am when i woke up to get ready for election day. why you may ask? no... i didn't need 3 hours to prepare for my civic participation in exercising my right to vote, but i did need to get up and get ready to get down to greenwood primary school to work as a polling official. and oh. my. goodness. let's just say that it was probably one of the most un-invigorating days of my life! i got there at 7am, was issued with a stack of ballot papers and an electoral roll, the doors opened at 8am, and once we passed 9:30, it suddenly became dead quiet. and poor us, things never really picked up.
so after 10 hours of voting, our polling place only had 1,537 votes cast. and that's distributed across five polling officials. can you imagine? and worse, i was sitting at table number 4... so everytime we had a lone voter come in, they would stop at the first or second desk, and the rest of us were left there without any action! hahah. but in total i issued about 350 ballot papers. not much when you consider that i was sitting there for like 10 hours.
but even though it was deathly boring, the pay's good and the experience all up was pretty good too. at least i can now say that i have first-hand experience in witnessing exactly how these elections are administered. the people i got to work with today were really nice too. although, our assistant polling place manager was a bit funny, she rained a lot and had a little bit of a problem respecting personal space, but... even given that it was all still very pleasant.
but ask me if i'd do it again? i don't think i can say i would. i'd rather spend my saturdays in front of the telly, or heck, even studying! hahaha. at least then i wouldn't be so knackered. =p
anyhow, on another note. i'm really bothered how i keep getting distracted by the same thing. have you ever had a thought which just keeps invading your mind, minute after minute? it's a totally bizarre experience for me though... i'm really used to just having lone thoughts which drift in and out of my consciousness. but lately, i've just had the same thing repeatedly flash. it's beginning to get annoying. and i'm wondering maybe if this is God's way of telling me to act on it! but then again, the consequences are pretty uhm... severe? well at least they're real. and you know, once you go forward, there's no going back!
well. i'll be off for tonight. but i just want to say. i never ever ever ever want to have to ask someone these three questions ever again:
"have you cast an early vote for this election, or voted elsewhere today?"
"what's your full name?"
"and what's your address?"
gah.
-enough said.
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