How convenient. The polling station for my area is in the lobby of my apartment building. It should always be this easy. When I lived in Montreal for the last election, I couldn't vote. The polling station was in a school, but not one bus or cab driver, let alone Elections Fucking Canada, knew where the place was. I spent 3 1/2 hours circling the neighborhood trying to find it, and finally gave up and went home.

This time there was no trouble at all. I was on my way out to do some shopping, and I said I would vote on my way back. But when the elevator doors opened to let me off on the ground floor, there was the polling station! So I gave Stephen Harper's Conservatives my support before I went out.

I am the only one out of my circle of friends that will have voted Conservative today. My best friend in the whole wide world is not only a Liberal, but a journalist (of course). But I love her anyway. She voted Liberal, her husband - for some odd reason - voted Bloc. Oh well, everyone likes to be on a winning team, and he does live in the east end of Montreal...

I knew that the Libs, the Cons, the NDP, and the Green were running in my sector, but I didn't know that the Marxist-Leninist Party were also lurking around the fringes. Ugh, what a terrifying thought. As if Canada isn't already this close to getting the shit bombed out of us by the United States, we're going to become Commies? Great idea. I'll bring the marshmallows for toasting when the napalm strikes!