Today Russell & i renewed our claim to the title of 'effortlessly cool.'

We've just returned from our local polling place - in the back of the voodoo shop around the corner.

A few weeks ago, at Russell's grandmother's memorial service, our polling place came up. Jean, Russell's sister, was telling another relative how the only thing they knew about Church of Christ (said relative is a minister there) is that it was their polling place. Sister Katie chimed in, and started a discussion about being confused about how, precisely, voting in a church followed through on our fabled separation of church and state. Russell or i (i can't remember who, now) at this point chimed in that we vote in a religious location, too - in the back room of the local voodoo shop. Jean cried out "That is SO COOL. How is it that everything you two do is so EFFORTLESSLY COOL? It's not fair!"

I've never seen a relative of Russell's disappear faster than the Church of Christ minister. I also didn't hear my mother-in-law laugh quite so hard at anything else that week. Score one more point for the voodoo shop around the corner.