Day 418 of 1000

Linear algebra, Kelly, and the electionWe watched the Paul Ryan vs. Joe Biden Vice Presidential debate on the internet last night (http://cspan.org).  We have always enjoyed presidential elections. I think the first to which we paid any attention as a family was the 2004 race between George W. Bush and John F. Kerry.  We wrote about it in this blog.  Kelly and Christian made some posters the night of the election, jumped up and down, and shouted slogans.  Kelly was certainly into it more than Christian, but Christian pays attention, too.

Politics and elections are Kelly’s sports.  The page of the notes are from her Linear Algebra class last February.  The Republican primary debates were going on and Kelly could not help herself.  She is a pretty good caricaturist and she spent a LOT of time drawing the different candidates in the margins of her notebook.  She did it enough that you can see significant improvements in her caricaturing skills from the beginning of the election to the end.

We are a very conservative family.  We spent a lot of time in homeschool studying the reasons we believe what we believe.  Something that fascinates me about our intrafamilial political positions is that Lorena is easily the most conservative of us all.  Someday I need to write about her thoughts on illegal immigration.

We plan vote early (they allow that in North Carolina–we vote at Wake Tech Community College) so we can make some popcorn, turn up the internet, and stay up late on November 6.