I love this because I have some of these same thoughts when I stand in line at the school where I vote….
Here’s why you should vote: you are going to really love it, the whole strange procedure. You get to walk right into a building that you would never normally be allowed in, often an elementary school. You can pause in the hallway to look at all the weird school-art and feel the eerie vibe of hundreds of kids living their endless kid lives right nearby. Then you follow the arrows to the voting room and look at the faces of the volunteers – who are these people? There is a hush of secrecy, the voting booth is clunky, the whole thing seems fake somehow. You consider filling in all the bubbles, like you did on the SATs. But you don’t. You vote. You walk back outside feeling like you just gave blood or something, lightheaded from citizenry. You are wearing a sticker that says “I Voted” and you wish you could continue to get stickers like this throughout the day: I Ate Dinner, I Went To Sleep, I Got Out Of Bed, I Went To Work. But alas, it is just this one thing that we all do together, savor it.- Miranda July
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Great movie! I remember being told that I would like it, that I should see it, that someone had thought of me when they saw it. Well, everything I’d heard was true. I was really floored by the film. It came out in 2005. I had been thinking about biracial for a little while by the time I saw it at home on dvd, but no one had ever mentioned to me that there were biracial people in it. White dad/black mom biracial even! And divorce. It’s like Miranda July made the movie for me! Best of all, the movie wasn’t “about” race. It wasn’t about tragic mulattos whose parents were divorced, or about racial tensions, or interracial relationships. It was about people going through life. The wikipedia plot description doesn’t even mention race:
mulatto diaries 