Chrisonomicon

Wednesday, February 26, 2003

I was pleased to hear her cold, distant voice on the other end of the phone, apologizing that all circuits were busy and recommending I try my call again later. It was 12:36 p.m., the time my calls to Washington D.C. were scheduled for MoveOn's Virtual March against the war on Iraq, and it looks like we managed to jam their phones. The one girl I did get through to at Senator Campbell's (R-CO) office politely, hurriedly asked if I was calling in regards to the march and that she was sorry she couldn't take a more detailed comment due to call volume, but that she would mark me down in opposition to the war. I thanked her, my voice seeming lost on the other end as a wave of ringing phones washed over the line. As I hung up, I realized that the ringing hadn't drowned out my voice -- the ringing had amplified it.