Finally, I have DSL. Since I'm kind of a dunce with matters of the computer, I spent a fair amount of time calling various tech supports (including Morrill Tech Support in Jersey City, NJ - no hold time there), but I still have static and I chose not to "migrate" all my MSN settings or whatever over to Verizon, which I now regret, so I have to fix that. But I don't want to spend all day on the phone. Whatever. What else am I going to do, as it's negative bazillion outside with the windchill.

I have never cared less about what I look like having to actually walk outside in this weather. I thought I was going to pass out on the train I was so bundled up. I had a scarf knotted over my turtleneck sweater, which started to feel like it was choking me; I couldn't move my head around as it was constricted not only by all the wool around my neck but also the hood of my coat and my hat. And my long underwear and LL Bean insulated "storm chaser" boots, well, I was totally "jumbled up" and felt like I should have been ice fishing, not sitting on the train. It made me remember how much I hated getting in my car all bundled up like that - I could barely fit behind the wheel.

Reading:

Founding Sisters and the Nineteenth Amendment by Eleanor Clift. I really take for granted being able to vote. This book is changing all that, however. The suffragists really fucking worked their asses off to give women the right to vote. It's incredible. Some, like the big names (Stanton and Anthony) devoted their LIVES to suffrage. I know you know that, but when you read a book about what actually devoting your life to suffrage entailed, well, it's humbling. So while my biggest pet peeve remains people who don't vote, it's been modifed to especially women who don't vote. Interesting Fact: "Through the Civil War until the Fourteenth Amendment, the word 'male' had never appeared in the U.S. Constitution." (page 40, Founding Sisters).

The Fourteenth Amendment reads in part: "But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the executive and judicial officers of a state, or the members of the legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such state, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such state.
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