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I've had quite the busy and wonderful weekend but before I get to all of that I thought I would blog about my evening, last Thursday. I spent some of the evening volunteering at the Obama headquarters here in Chicago. Volunteers were asked to bring their own cellphone and we were given a list of names and phone numbers of local Obama supporters. We were to call those supporters and tell them about volunteer opportunities coming up as well as educate them on how and where to vote on November 4th.

No problem. I can carry on a 20 minute conversation with my cat Pua...calling a few strangers shouldn't be that difficult.

Well, about 8 calls into my list I realized that a lot of people were hitting "ignore" on their cell phone and sending me directly to voicemail. And that's fine, they probably just didn't know my phone number or something. So I began leaving voice mails. Lots of voicemails.

After about the 12th call I started to feel a bit annoyed; I mean come on...you don't even know why I'm calling!

Well then finally a lady picked up the phone and I said "Hello, my name is Olivia and I'm calling on behalf of the Obama campaign...." and got to read my whole schpeel to her. And she eagerly told me how she was volunteering over the weekend in Indiana to Get Out the Vote! I said "Fantastic!" and she said "I love that there is a McCain campaigning for Obama!"

And then I realized my last name was coming up on caller ID. And all those ignored phone calls began to make sense. I mean, I was calling a list of Obama supporters! :)