Yayayaya!

Spider's baaaaaaack!!!! I'mma go read his blog now. That's all I got for today!

And I'm still trying to figure out if I'm overly demanding or crazy or something, so definitely check out yesterday's post!

Democracy at Work

First, your weekly random picture...it's not toally random since election day was yesterday, but it had me amused:Oh, Australia. :-P

I tried to vote yesterday, and I hope all of you went and succeeded better than I did.

So, I registered to vote at Harrisburg Pride in July. I was gonna wait and do it at a place that seemed more reliable (and see if I could do it online) but...the woman had my phone number on her petition, and she threatened to call me every day until I registered to vote -- and she looked like she meant it. So I registered at her humble little stand at Pride.

Yesterday, I cheerfully hopped in my car, and drove towards the high school -- and decided I didn't want to vote there because, well, frankly the crossing guard was eyeing me down like he was going to decapitate me if I got out of my car.
So I drove until I saw signs for a polling place and I hadn't gone far -- I was at a local elementary school. I even knew where I was because the children's show I was in last semester had performed here. I parked, quite well (for me) I might add. Then I confidently went in to perform my civic duty as an American.
"What's your last name?" they asked. I told them.
"Nope," they said after a few minutes of looking.
"Nope?" I repeated, incredulously.
"Nope." One of the guys at the table got out his cell phone, dialed a number and he and I sat on hold for the next 40 minutes. Finally, we get through to whoever, explain what all had happened (I related my story about registering) and they said "We're sorry sir, somewhere along the line there was a disconnect. You're not registered."
So, they had me fill out the form again. This time though, he made me lick the sides and close it up. I'm not sure why that's significant, but that was really the only difference from last time I registered.
Then the guy gave me a candy bar and said "But don't let this dissuade you from voting next time!"

Despite my lack of assistance, Human Rights Campaign informed me at 2:01 this morning that 204 of the 228 candidates they endorsed had won, and 11 of these candidates were in undecided races (at the time). This included a sound defeat of Rick I-Wanna-Be-A-Phelps Santorum.

Just because I'm in a good mood, I'm going to give you all a second entertaining random picture:Also, check out this interesting, well-worded and (I think) fairly accurate analysis of the election results. (Thanks to Eric for mentioning it on his blog!)

"Maybe I'll tangle in the power lines"

So, I decided I wasn't exactly a huge fan of Dlist's blogging capabilities (I think I just couldn't figure it out well enough, actually) so I'm starting a thingy on here.

And, actually, poking around, I think I like this more'n Xanga or Livejournal and definitely more than MySpace. (And yes, I've used/do use all of the above enough to compare...it's not that I don't have a life, it's just that I like to write about my life. A lot.) (Self centered? You betcha!)

So...for those of you just tuning in...here's me:
My name is Graham. I've heard the puns and jokes that just went through your head, it's almost guaranteed. If you think it was original, you are more than welcome to tell your joke though. (If it involves crackers of any kind, it wasn't original. :P)

What do you want to know about me? Well, we'll go through all those standard survey questions, I guess...I'm from Rhode Island, but I got to school in Pennsyltucky (Central PA). I'm 19 years old, born June 23 which makes me a cancer on the cusp of Gemini. I'm an actor, and a theater major. I'm determined, some day I will make this theater thing into a career, I'll be successful. I would go so far as to say, I'll be famous. I'm bisexual, although I much prefer men. So that makes me, as I would call it "mostly gay" or "homoflexible". My ancestry is pretty much 99% English, 0.6% German and 0.4% Scottish. I mean, I'm estimating there, but you get the idea. I'm a W.A.S.P.

My life story is generally uninteresting. I grew up in Rhode Island, the son of an actor/real estate lawyer and an author. I have one older brother and two cats. I spent the last two years of high school going in and out of the hospital with Crohn's Disease, and then I went to college. Now I'm in college, and I lead what is, to me, an eventful life. However, from another person's perspective I'm sure it seems highly average. In the future, I hope to go to New York, work there as an actor, do some stage, TV, film, and the like. Versatility is the name of the game (and read into that what you will...)

As far as things I like go? Well, myself for starters. I'm a big fan of me.
I love to eat at diners, particularly at the odd hours of the morning like..3:00 am. I like to sleep though, so don't ask why I'm so willing to stay up all night just for a plate of the MoJo Diner's bacon cheddar fries. I will listen to basically any type of music except screamer rock -- if you're gonna call it music, I better not be able to do it. I'm not musically talented at all. Most movies, except ones whose previews kill my brain cells (a la, DOOM and You, Me, & Dupree) will be given a chance to be good. Same with TV shows. I'm very open-minded about entertainment and have a huge range in taste. As far as food goes, my favorite food is ice cream but I have this terrible addiction to Oreos. I need a rehab center. Dead serious.

My absolute, absolute favorite thing ever? PEOPLE. Love them. There's so much variety between everyone, diversity. It's incredible to watch. I love it. I love to people watch, to meet people, to talk to people, to see people, to imitate people.

I guess that's about it for now.