Voting for Obama gave me a panic attack, so I played the Cancer Card.<\/p>\n
The line to vote stretched around one short block (underhill), and down a long block all the way to Vanderbilt.\u00c2\u00a0 Okay, I’ve voted in this school three or four times, and never have I had to wait for more than 5 people.\u00c2\u00a0 There must have been 500 people in line.<\/p>\n
As I walk down the line, seeing the end get further away as I walk towards it, I see people I know and nod to them.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m thinking about how long this is going to take, and whether I can do it.\u00c2\u00a0 And I get to the end of the line, and my body explodes into a full blown pins and needles attack immediately.<\/p>\n
I strip off all the clothes I can remove and remain decent.\u00c2\u00a0 I scratch.\u00c2\u00a0 I sit down and try to meditate.\u00c2\u00a0 And in the end, after about 5 minutes of huddling in a fetal position in a 500 person long voting line, I gave in and played the Cancer Card.<\/p>\n
I walked back to the front of the line (huddling and shivering) and told the person at the door that I had cancer, etc. etc.\u00c2\u00a0 As I was walking up I saw JW and his fiancee, and they both were immediately concerned with “are you okay?” questions, so I’m guessing I looked like hell.\u00c2\u00a0 I looked bad enough that the guy at the door just said “stand behind that woman”<\/p>\n
It still took another 10 minutes of waiting to use the voting machine.\u00c2\u00a0 I ended up sitting down on the ground, trying to meditate.\u00c2\u00a0 Still in full pins and needles mode.<\/p>\n
Once I was done voting, I basically ran out of there.\u00c2\u00a0 Walked home as fast as I could.\u00c2\u00a0 Took off more clothes on the way.\u00c2\u00a0 Walking down the street without any shirt on.\u00c2\u00a0 I got some dirty looks from a lesbian couple with their kid.<\/p>\n
It was probably the worst pins and needles attack I have had.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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