What I was wearing, part two
Jan. 28th, 2004 01:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
quislibetStill in NH today; too tired to go home last night, and today we're waiting out the snow.
A couple of days ago you may recall that I catalogued what seemed to me to be an extravagant number of layers of clothing to be wearing for at-home study. Yesterday I had considerably more layers on as I stood outside a picturesque southwestern New Hampshire town hall with a "Vote Dean" sign half again my height.[(*) and (**)] J. and I were there for a total of six hours, with long warm-up breaks in between. I had four layers on under a sweater, with two layers over it, two scarves, a hat (a bright yellow one with a campaign logo upon't), a hood, four gloves, etc., but that was good for only about 45 minutes of comfort at a time.
It's the toes and fingers, really, that get me down. Two pairs of gloves, and wool batting wrapped around my toes, and still, so cold! But we had no snow (yet), and the temperature was in the teens Fahrenheit, and there was no wind, so it could have been worse.
We chatted with some Clark people, the only other "campaign visibility" volunteers there (well, in fact one of them was for Dean, but he was holding a Clark sign along with his wife; their car has a bumper sticker for each candidate), and spent one pleasant hour being good-naturedly liberal-baited by the Republican guy in charge of snow-plowing the town, who kept telling people to vote for Sharpton as they walked by. He also talked animatedly with the Clark people, as they knew various locals in common. (Pro-Clark woman: "Do you know the such-and-such family?" -- Snow-plow guy: "Know them? I accidentally killed their dog!")
Sadly, the town where J. and I were stationed went for Kerry as did the rest of the state; I can only think, following the comment of![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sjc that the Senator looks like the Old Man in the Mountain, that it was a nostalgia thing for their lost natural monument.
So we shall just see what happens next Tuesday. In the meantime we shall have to listen to the press tediuously speculate about whether he should drop out of the race after coming in third and then second in two of fifty states.
J.'s parents' efforts paid off somewhat, at least, since Dean carried their tiny hometown by half a dozen votes. They had even had the foresight 33 years ago (roughly this week) to conceive one of those 6 voters -- now that's dedication.
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(*) The sign said "Hope Not Fear," which makes sense only in a general election context, I'm afraid; I'm not sure if the campaign meant thereby to paint any other Democratic candidates as fearmongers -- which would, admittedly, be odd.
(**) If you feel the need to comment simply to disparage Dean, there's really nothing new you can say that I haven't heard already, so restrain yourself.
A couple of days ago you may recall that I catalogued what seemed to me to be an extravagant number of layers of clothing to be wearing for at-home study. Yesterday I had considerably more layers on as I stood outside a picturesque southwestern New Hampshire town hall with a "Vote Dean" sign half again my height.[(*) and (**)] J. and I were there for a total of six hours, with long warm-up breaks in between. I had four layers on under a sweater, with two layers over it, two scarves, a hat (a bright yellow one with a campaign logo upon't), a hood, four gloves, etc., but that was good for only about 45 minutes of comfort at a time.
It's the toes and fingers, really, that get me down. Two pairs of gloves, and wool batting wrapped around my toes, and still, so cold! But we had no snow (yet), and the temperature was in the teens Fahrenheit, and there was no wind, so it could have been worse.
We chatted with some Clark people, the only other "campaign visibility" volunteers there (well, in fact one of them was for Dean, but he was holding a Clark sign along with his wife; their car has a bumper sticker for each candidate), and spent one pleasant hour being good-naturedly liberal-baited by the Republican guy in charge of snow-plowing the town, who kept telling people to vote for Sharpton as they walked by. He also talked animatedly with the Clark people, as they knew various locals in common. (Pro-Clark woman: "Do you know the such-and-such family?" -- Snow-plow guy: "Know them? I accidentally killed their dog!")
Sadly, the town where J. and I were stationed went for Kerry as did the rest of the state; I can only think, following the comment of
sjc that the Senator looks like the Old Man in the Mountain, that it was a nostalgia thing for their lost natural monument. So we shall just see what happens next Tuesday. In the meantime we shall have to listen to the press tediuously speculate about whether he should drop out of the race after coming in third and then second in two of fifty states.
J.'s parents' efforts paid off somewhat, at least, since Dean carried their tiny hometown by half a dozen votes. They had even had the foresight 33 years ago (roughly this week) to conceive one of those 6 voters -- now that's dedication.
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(*) The sign said "Hope Not Fear," which makes sense only in a general election context, I'm afraid; I'm not sure if the campaign meant thereby to paint any other Democratic candidates as fearmongers -- which would, admittedly, be odd.
(**) If you feel the need to comment simply to disparage Dean, there's really nothing new you can say that I haven't heard already, so restrain yourself.
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Date: 2004-01-28 11:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-28 11:11 am (UTC)Just like that? No punctuation? Not even a little comma after Not?
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Date: 2004-01-28 12:47 pm (UTC)No kidding. If the sign had said "Hope Not Fea'r" I would have been irate.
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Date: 2004-01-28 04:29 pm (UTC)Ah, yes: the dangers of embedded quoting. I left that comma in there because that was part of quislibet's entry (as it should've been since it was followed by another sentence, and written English prescribes placing that comma before the closing quote). I assume that comma was not part of the text printed on the signs, just a necessity of the way it was quoted.
I was merely hoping to play with the difference between Hope Not. Fear and Hope. Not Fear. But I fear it didn't come across at all.
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Date: 2004-01-29 08:51 am (UTC)I can at least say for certain that there was no colon after "not."
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Date: 2004-01-28 10:44 pm (UTC)