Popularity can be SUCH a curse...

So. As of last night March has gone from a fairly quiet month with some visits in the middle to OMG SOCIAL WHIRL!

Starting tomorrow with Spontaeneous Norwegian Visiting - after a conversation on the mud last night about visiting, a quick check of t'internet and some ridiculously cheap flights from RyanAir, Our Tilly is coming to visit. Tomorrow!
So much cleaning to do tonight. Also, must find place to ride horses.

Next weekend is thesme_01's weekend O' Horror FUN, and Paddy's day, so time off work, yay! Also Mother's Day (which means I won't be able to hang around too much sunday, will have to be off to Familyness).

Weekend after *that* is my Birthday with added visitations from being_here and walklikeacat. YAY!

Finally, the last weekend in March I will hopefully be visiting reuss & daegul in their NOO HOUSE (MORE YAY!), will look into flights for that later.

Hmm. Looking at that - would I have *any* kind of social life without the internet? Or would I just be forced to try and find one nearer home...

Anyway. Things to Do Today -

1. Check out flights
2. Book horseriding booked! yay!
3. Clean house (woe) well. It's cleanER ;p
4. Buy Alcohol (MORE CIDER)
5. Vote (more on this one later) for all the good it'll do...

election!

Since we are, apparently, going thro it all AGAIN.
I have never in my life felt so apathetic about the whole process and even voting (normally I am quite militant on the Everyone Should Vote front)... it just all seems so pointless, it's just another break for shouting, and then it'll all start going round in the same old tired circle again.

Anyway. To chose from I have this lot

4 DUP candidates (Paisley's lot) incl. that malodourous, slimy toe-rag of a turn-coat, Donaldson *shudders* who will alas almost certainly get in. Also Mr. Poots tho, who I dealt with thro work some time ago and seemed a decent enough chap.

3 Ulster Unionists - is there much point to this lot any more? Or can they claw something back from the divisions now in the DUP?

And then 1 each from SF (bleh), Alliance (thankfully NOT the homophobic and bigotted guy from last time), Green party (woo!), Conservative party (why? WHY?), Workers party (heh), Bob McCartney (who may get a vote just for pure comedy value) and the SDLP - who are fielding the only woman in a field of... 14.
Looking through the lists for other areas, quite a lot are, as _unhurt_ points out, made up *entirely* of middle-aged white men. Apparently there are even less women standing now than last time.

Tho given what a farce our 'political structure' is these days, why would anyone other than those already firmly mired in it WANT to bother getting involved anyway?

Hmm. I know PR voting is supposed to go from first preference down, but this time round I may well be working from last preference up, since none of them exactly stand out.
The only trouble there is working out who comes last - Donaldson or Butler...