Day 17

[feuervogel]

I tried to get some work done on the annotation project, but I only managed about half an hour before I stopped. And I got maybe 90 seconds annotated on a first pass.

In March or April, I requested Margaret Atwood's sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, The Testaments (2019), from the Athens library. I placed a hold on an e-copy, and I was 17th in line. As far as I know, that hold never came through. But the PG County library has about a dozen e-copies, and many were available, so I checked it out there.

It's a fitting sequel, told once again through found documentation. In 2020, reading about a secret plan to overthrow a terrible Christo-fascist government that succeeds is heartening, even if it seems woefully optimistic.

3 weeks to election day. Have you voted or made a plan to vote? Our lives depend on it.

Comments

[krait]

I voted Friday! The line wasn't too long, either; I was pleasantly surprised.

[nita]

I voted on the first day of early voting. Did the drive thru voting option. Of course, now, the state Republican Party wants to have those votes disqualified because it didn't require an proof that you were disabled in some way (which the law never required). Or that it doesn't count because it didn't happen in a building. They are grasping at straws to disenfranchise voters. So, now I have to pay close attention to see if I will have to try to re-vote. Needles to say, I'm at the "Hulk smash" level of anger.