Primary Day

Aahh, Primary Day. In the past, I've been poll watching, but I much rather preferred what I did today because it did make me feel like I did something. Hard to believe I've only been on the West Coast for a week; it's seems much longer than that - and now I'm leaving it...

So it was actually another fairly laid-back day in the sense that we weren't exactly all frazzled, which has also been my other Primary Day experience. We had a nice lunch before heading to the office to do a round of phone calling to our members for about an hour or so before going over the Gregoire for governor campaign to do more phone calling. We then headed back to the hotel for a spell before heading to the victory parties.

We went to the Coordinated Campaign party first and had a drink and watched as the results started to come in. We then headed to the Gregoire party to hear the democratic nominee speak.

P.S. the hotels were very very nice. Very shi-shi-pee-pee-doo-doo.

We wore our AFSCME green Kerry/Edwards shirts, which I only tell you because we were trying to get in the news shots. There were TVs stationed around the room where the party was held and we were directly in front of the press riser. So as the speech ended, we noticed that the camera we were standing in front of was a live feed from the room, so glancing at the TV, we noticed we were in the bottom of the frame. Charles was fairly more visible and I noticed I was standing directly to the left of the reporter (his right since his back was turned) so we were trying to position oursevles so that our shirts would be more visible. So as I tried to look nonchalant walking sideways, this woman was trying to get in the shot as well and I nearly knocked right into her. She was looking directly at the camera and I was attmepting to get in the space next to her so that my shirt would be more visible. It was pretty amusing watching us all try to move into the spaces so that you could see the shirts.

Afterwards, we had another drink at the hotel, which is an understatement since the beer I got was practically two beers in a big-ass fluted glass.

By the way, for those of you who have read the previous posts, for the record, Pullyaup is pronounced "Pew-al-up." Yeah, not as it looks.

Tomorrow is our last day in Seattle since we're headed for Iowa on Thursday. I should change the address of this blog from "MonkeeinSeattle" to "Monkeeinafreakinwheatfield" or something like that. I am going to miss this town, despite not spending much time here - I can tell that I would be really comfortable here.

By the way, the picture below is a moment of levity today, not that we were exactly lacking in that today... but not only is it the only picture I snapped today, it's pretty freakin' hilarious. So yeah, that's Jess and current WA Governor, Locke.

I'm definitely getting sent to the chigger-infested field now... sorry, Jess.