I just filled out my application for an Absentee Ballot for Pennsylvania so I thought I'd share some stuff I've come across in the whole process.

Voter Information Guide

First off, Jason Kottke has posted a Voters Information Guide at his website. It's pretty comprehensive so please go over and take a look. This page contains different version of the Voter Information Guide for people who have disabilities or want a printable version. Also, John Zeratsky has made this cool little button for linking to the site (see below). If you have any suggestions for the Voters Information Guide, feel free to drop him a line. Spread The Word.

Pennsylvania Absentee Voting

To get Absentee Ballot for Pennsylvania, you must first register for an Absentee Ballot. You can follow the direction on the Just Vote Site as the Voters Information Guide suggest, but the PDF that the site generates will come out blank if you don't have Acrobat Reader (like me). SO I just downloaded a blank Absentee Ballot Registration from the League of Women Voter's website. When you fill out the form, if you don't know what to put for any fields, feel free to contact your County Election Bureau (I found Delaware County via Google). For instance, I didn't know what I should put for municipality, ward, and district... turns out Delaware County Election Bureau will fill in all that information. Since most of my friends are from Delaware County, I put their contact information below. They were very nice to me answering all my questions.

Delaware County - Election Bureau

Director	Location	Phone	Fax
Josephine M. Laird	Government Center, Ground Floor 201 W. Front Street Media,  PA 19063	610-891-4120	610-892-0641

Important Dates

You can find important dates here. For Pennsylvania in particular:
Registration - October 4th
Absentee Ballot Application - must be received by your county voter registration office 30 days before the election, or postmarked no later than the thirtieth day before the election
Absentee Ballot - October 29th

Other information

Pennsylvania Voting is important, because it's looking to be a swing state. If you go to college in another state (as I do), you may want to vote PA because it's probably going to be closer. If you have any questions, feel free to leave a comment or email me. Happy Voting!

Well, last week caught up with me... I was going to bed late and getting up early... now I'm going to bed early and getting up late. One of these days I'll get on a set sleep schedule.

This past weekend I went to Canada for the first time to celebrate a friend's birthday. Since I started college, I've lived just over an hour away from Canada... yet I've never gone there... how odd. It was fun... better than the U.S. side of Niagara Falls.

This weekend I also threw a Yeungling party at my apartment. We were celebrating... I don't know... Yeungling being on sale.

Back to work... this is a pretty busy week.

(Wow, I used a lot of ellipses in this post)

Wow, I actually got up early today. I even managed to wake up before my alarm. Oddly enough, I had a dream about my job. It was a weird dream, but it wasn't like an anxiety dream (which I often get when I'm unsure of something). It was just a weird dream

Anyway, I get my first paycheck from my job tomorrow. I'm not used to having money, hopefully I'll actually be able to save some money this summer. First thing's first, though. I need shoes. I need to figure out what kind I want to buy.

I've been biking a lot lately. I like it. Running always seems too slow for me. I'll run for a long time and feel like I've gone nowhere. When I bike, I can explore. I've actually found a lot of cool areas around Rochester.

I haven't been reading as much as I've wanted to this summer. I've actually been watching a lot of movie and Adult Swim (my latest obsession is Harvey Birdman.

I also don't feel as busy this summer because I'm not going out every night with friends like I've done each summer before. It's weird having friends that work mornings like I do. No one stays up really late like back in Wallingford/Swarthmore. It's kind of a weird adjustment. Last night was the first night I was able to fall asleep before midnight in a long time. I also find myself unable to sleep longer than 6 hours. How odd.

So far things are going pretty well... the temperature just did a 180 and went from cloudy/cold to sunny/hot. I'm really getting into my work now that Pete have joined the team. I've been biking a lot and watching plenty of baseball. I took some pictures (while biking last week) which I'll probably post sometime soon.

This summer movie offering isn't up to par with previous summer... so far my list include:

• A Series of Unfortunate Events
• Dodgeball
• Anchorman
• The Stepford Wives

... any other good suggestions?

Other than that... my only real plans this summer include going to Kansas for the 4th of July, going to Philly sometime at the end of July or beginning of August. Hopefully I'll see you all around.

Okay, I've been working on my new blog redesign (See it here). Now, for all you savvy web developers (and generally artistic people) out there... how do I choose fonts to use on my site? Right now I'm using skia and crap. I love skia, but very few computers come built in with it (and it looks disturbing at large sizes).

also... a general opinion question... how does this latest design look? I made the lines thinner (looks less childish now...Here's the previous mock-up) and I alternated the corners between square and rounded (because I CAN... and Panic inspired me). More specifically, what do you think of the colors? Too much green?

thanks...