Election Day's all about the fuzzy slippers this time around.  I actually voted last week, so today I'm at my desk and watching the rain through the office window while my feet stay dry and warm .  It's not that I'm not doing anything election-related today - the husband and I placed a few more No on 8 signs around the neighborhood while we walked the dog this morning, and I'll spend most of the day waiting for and watching returns.  

I've been voting for more than 25 years now, and have supported candidates, cheered at rallies, monitored overseas elections and even worked a polling station here in California, but I've never been as emotionally invested in an election as I am in this one.  

The candidates aren't that important to me this time around, but when a bunch of out-of-state money can come here and try and insert decidedly un-Californian values into the California constitution, it bothers me. That a bunch of people can come here and and try to take away my rights and my husband's rights and the rights of thousands of other Californians bothers me.  

I'm optimistic that Californians will see through the fearmongering and keep California as a leader in civil rights for all citizens.  I have to be - I know that Californians are better than this.  That's why I vote.