tententen

october tenth, two thousand and ten.
what a historic day.

for the first time in a century, the date will read ten ten ten. thats the same number three times. its almost as cool as last year on september ninth. and the year before on august eighth. and the year before on july seventh. its almost like how a calendar works! couples are probably getting married on this specific day so that they can tell their children how good they were at spotting numerological patterns. expectant mothers are probably taking breaks from screaming at their husbands to scream at their obgyns to induce them on this specific day so that they can have the best birthing story of all the moms at pta meetings. and sandwich shops are probably using this repetitive date to drive up sales with the panini promotion of a lifetime.
OHMYGOD!! just think! people are going to actually buy ten baguettes to get ten free! people are actually going to walk out of lee's sandwich shop with twenty baguettes! people will have enough bread to feed the entire town of east thermopolis, wyoming and yet theyll probably end up using it for sandwiches until the date reads 11/11/11. mmm.. useless gluttony...

in other news..

two days ago, i registered to vote. so ladies and gentlemen i would like to take this moment to announce my official party membership.

i am very proud to say that i am an official....
(cue annoyingly long drumroll)...
DEMOCRAT!!
(DA DAAHHHH!! *cymbal crash*)
thats right, im an ass. but honestly id rather an ass rather than a blundering gargantuan with a brain the size of a peanut that has had its dignity slowly but surely stripped away by continuously being the mediocre star of circuses worldwide. funnily enough, that perfectly describes many republicans.. way to go thomas nast.. i believe you hit the nail on the head with that one.
but i am very proud that i registered. i obviously couldnt register or vote in the last election cause i was seventeen (damn you twenty-sixth amendment!) so when i turned eighteen, i immediately began to wait until the last minute to register. even though i am a proud citizen of the american nation, i still hold dual citizenship of the procrasti-nation so i had to uphold my "ill-do-it-later-duties." (also a member of the colbert nation and imagi-nation) so five hundred and twenty nine days later, i registered and now i feel like a real citizen. now i get to have a say in how our country is run. because i registered, there is one more ballot that has to be counted and one more voice that gets heard before it is quickly muted by the majority that does not agree with me. awesome. still it is a patriotic duty that i believe everyone should fufill. plus you get that "i voted" sticker and some candy from the voting place. patriotism at its finest!

oh my god. its 3:45 on 10/10/10! these chronological and repetitive time and date patterns are too much for me to handle. now if youll excuse me, im going to count my ten fingers and ten toes ten times while singing this song in my head.
--amandamargaret