For the first time, I think, in my entire voting life, every single person I voted for in this admittedly not terribly important election won. James Mueller has been re-elected as Mayor, defeating his opponent by 75-25 or so, Bianca Tirado won as city clerk, and all of my City Council candidates won as well, including my former co-worker Sherry Bolden-Simpson, who unseated the sole Republican on the City Council by a mere 37 votes. So, yay! I don’t have a Republican representing me on City Council any longer!

Turnout was fucking garbage, of course, as it always is. South Bend’s population has hovered right around 100,000 for most of my life and just barely over ten thousand people bothered to take the ten minutes it would have required to cast a ballot. I have no idea how many voters are in my actual Council district, but there were only about 2700 votes cast. Just fucking sad.

Keeping an eye on all the other races, of course, especially the ones with any sort of national importance to them, and so far– at 8:32 PM– things seem to be mostly going our way? I could use some good news, so hopefully all of that holds up.

I wonder what it would take to get a marijuana legalization bill on Indiana’s ballot? I’m not about to volunteer to do the work– I genuinely don’t think I’d partake even if it were legal, honestly– but it looks like three of our four neighbors will have legal weed by the end of the night, and I’m only saying “three out of four” because I’m too lazy to look up whether it’s legal in Kentucky or not, and I’m gonna guess it isn’t. I live close enough to Michigan that if I wanted to get my hands on some gummies or some shit it wouldn’t be difficult. Shit, my 83-year-old aunt offers me edibles every time she sees me lately.