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Volunteering this morning was great. Working the phone bank would have been exhausting, but this was fun. They put me on a tedious job that involved very little human contact -- just what I like! It was sorting addresses of registered Democrats into packets for the "flushers" tomorrow. Of which I will be one. I hope that's because we will flush out reluctant voters, not because our chances are in the toilet!

Actually I'm feeling good about the election for the first time in ages. There were tons of people in the party office, all smiling. Happy. Confident of success. Their optimism was infectious. I wish I had started volunteering weeks ago.

The best news I got there was from an older man I worked with on the packets. He's from Georgia. He contacted the Kerry campaign to volunteer, but they didn't need him in Georgia. They sent him here instead. Not Florida or Pennsylvania, here. That really surprised me. Maybe we do have a chance of making NC a blue state. (honestly, I don't believe that. But still, somebody must think there's a chance.)

The best part of the day was when some reporters from ABC came in to get footage of party drones at work. One of them asked "who has the car outside with all the toys on it?" He took my name and number and said he'd call me later. I told him that the art car club would be driving in the Chapel Hill Christmas parade (not really an exaggeration, we may have 3 cars there!) and he seemed really interested in doing an art car story on that.

So tomorrow morning I have to be there at 6:30. They said they'd provide breakfast, but I saw them bringing in food and it was a white flour & sugar fest. Donuts, danish, all stuff like that. That's no good because I'm really trying to eat more healthy. I have some sugar free granola bars to take with me. They're really filling, which is a good thing because I may end up eating them all day.