Just got back from my fifth election since February of last year.

So, February 1, 2013, John Kerry was sworn in as Secretary of State of the United States of America.

As Kerry had previously been the senior senator for Massachusetts, that left a United States senate seat open, and we had a primary, and then a general election, which Ed Markey won.

Because Ed Markey had previously been the Representative for the Fifth district of Massachusetts (after redistricting; he'd been the Representative for the Seventh district previously), that left a Congressional seat open, so we had a primary, and then a general election, which Katherine Clark won.

Because Katherine Clark was a state senator, that left a Massachusetts state senate seat open, and we just had the primary for that one. Then we'll later have a general election for that state senate seat.

Two of the candidates for the state senate seat are state representatives, one from the 33d Middlesex district and one from the 31st Middlesex district. Fortunately, we're in 32nd Middlesex, and Rep. Paul Brodeur isn't one of the candidates, so we're going to be done with our trickledown after the general.

Only made it to, I think, the second commercial break in AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D today

I'd started feeling sick at the normalization of torture, anyway. And then I realized that their apparent problems were "having a spy on the Bus for the Clairvoyant who was going to try to figure out what had happened to Coulson" and "getting information from that spy."

And that both problems could be solved by FOLLOWING THEIR DAMNED ORDERS AND TURNING THE SPY OVER TO THE GUY WHO WAS THERE TO PICK HIM UP AND TAKE HIM TO THE FRIDGE FOR INTERROGATION.

Maybe that's what they ended up doing. I don't know. I just got too sick of "torture plus idiot plot."