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I volunteered for No on 8 tonight, doing phone banking... For those not keeping track, Prop 8 changes the constitution of California to ban same-sex marriage, whereas currently it's legal. There was a poll in early October showing the right-wing buttinskis winning, and the latest poll still has them winning, but it's only 48 to 45. So there is hope, but rather than sitting around hoping wingers stay home, it makes me feel a lot better to do something.

My personal sample size was 50 calls, of which there were 10 people who talked to me long enough to get a sense of where they were at, of which 5 were against and 5 were for. My big triumph was getting in touch with someone in San Jose who also wanted to volunteer... I just read _World War Z_ this weekend, so my thought was that recruiting another volunteer while volunteering was like being a zombie that sucessfully managed to bite someone. :)

Details about what the phone banking was like )

Phone banking is not that scary. It fulfills that desire that we all have, to go down lists and cross things off and sort them. Action is fun.

Sending money is good, too, though, if you're out of state, or whatever... This really will help all of America, if California gets to keep being free. GLBTAI people will be able to escape to here, to any number of industries or climates. We have nearly 12% of Americans living here. We can be a great big honking example to ease the way for other states. Help us out, here. Even a little bit is cool.
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So, how's the police thing going? Well, as you know, Bob, I'd been told I was definitely on the list for the 30th obstacle course/shrink thing. And yet, you can no doubt discern from the thrust of the previous sentence, after getting no communication the week of (all the warning I got the first time) and calling Thursday "I'll check and call you back," and (as ever, not called back) calling Friday "Um... Maybe if you just show up at 8? Let me check... [new lady on the line] No, we have sooo many applicants we can't take you this time, and the next one isn't until the 21st of October."

Brief bemusement )

So instead on Saturday I did far more strenuous things. I helped [livejournal.com profile] aiyume move, and now I have interesting bruises and he lives in a much closer, tremendously nicer place. Two down, three to go, when it comes to people who helped me move... After that, hung with Rezaul and Mimi and Sam and watched "Troy". Eeeg, Brad Pitt annoys me. But the movie gets better with distance, and it inspired me to delve into Wikipedia and read up on the Illiad... They all die. Hum.

The other annoying thing about Troy was its immensely dated view of religion... Or, if not "dated", is there a way to say "Something that will clearly stink of our times in very short order"? The whole cutesy "Oh, we're such rebels, Achilles Our Hero woos women by claiming gods don't exist, and we make sure that we show the Achilles Heel myth is just the result of stupid superstitious soldiers, and we blame the whole Troy-losing thing on a pushy priest and a pathetic Priam"? Pfeh. "Religion is bunk" is as stupid as "The Reds are out to Eat Our Babies".

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