The Aftermath: Brogger on the Scene

Love it, hate it, or indifferent it, Obama looks to be the next prez. And damn was it wild tonight. My roommate and I ventured onto the streets of Berkeley to check out the peaceful rioting. In the middle of Shattuck, there was a line of people waving down cars and whistling.

Yawn.

So we made our way up Bancroft towards Sproul, where everyone was heading towards Durant/Telegraph. It was jampacked with people chanting, people climbing the traffic lights. Oh, and of course, drinking and smoking the reefer. The police had to set up roadblocks down the roads so that no cars would even think about trying to cut through the mob.

After we got bored of this, we headed through Sproul and then up towards the Campanile, where it just so happened a band (called The Dance, apparently) decided to set up and play an impromptu concert. Lots of weed here. Met up with some freshman year floormates too.

Screw having a midterm tomorrow.

I couldn't get my camera set right, but here ya go anyway. Notice the appropriately ironic placement of the "Drug Free Zone" sign:

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Erection day 08. owait...

Yeah, it's finally time to vote. Who'd ever heard of such shenanigans? Get out there, do your part, it's your right and your duty, blah blah blah. Gogogo storm the front. Not kidding, though. Go.

I got up at a crisp 7am to beat the rush and I arrived at Heller Lounge at 7:30am. Talk about crowd mentality, there was a line spilling out the doors, but all I needed to do was go inside and get checked in at Line B (read: 2 people long). Judging from the 15 minutes it took them to verify my address and name (speaking of which, somehow I got registered as Ericq, wtf), it's gonna be a HUGE jam during the day. All over the country, I expect. But hell, good for them for volunteering. Someone's gotta do it.

5 minutes later, I'm out the door and I start listening to my iPod again, and damned if I could've predicted which song starts playing. The Crystal Method - The American Way. Of all the songs, this probably has negative play counts, but that's just how things/shuffle work. Got a good kick out of that.

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