Today's paper had a complete listing of all the local candidates that completed and submitted qualified nomination papers for November's election. The good news is that it confirmed that I did get the required signatures. There are officially 8 candidates, including myself, running for three seats on the school committee. None of this was really news to me, but it was cool to see my name in the paper again.

This weekend I filled out a form that needed to be turned into one of the local papers. It is a form that has all sorts of biographical information so the staff there can be sure that they have all the right information. A lot of it is professional and community based information. The only hard part for me was the marital status thing.

Obviously, I get the point that Ray and I are not married. That is not something that can change any time soon. At the same time, having 10 years together seems like it should get more credit than my putting down that I was single. So, it took a little while for me to sort out what to put down for that section.

I ended up listing Ray as a spouse, but saying that we were not married. The funny thing is that if we were straight, we could claim common law marriage! I put down how long we had been together, but stated that we were not legally married. I figure they can sort out how (and if they ever need) to report it.

I am not sure if I mentioned this, but I did receive a letter telling us that we would not be having a primary. Apparently, there was some question as to whether or not we would need to have one because of the large candidate pool. That is a bit of a relief since it means I can save money on only one session of voting rather than having to spend money on two rounds of voting.

So, things will get a little quieter for a while as people relax a bit on campaigning for the summer.