It was cold yesterday for voting as well. Fortunately, there were plenty of voting stations in Pittsfield so there were no lines, early for Mary or late for me. How about with you all? Heard around Amherst there were two hour waits. Committed.
Of course, we stayed up late, and we know via Twitter and text messaging a number of you all did as well. Peter, Janet and Johanna were up for the weekend and the elections took up a lot of our conversation. Peter was reading a book by Nate Silver, a NYT pollster, who was supremely confident in his predictions. I repeated that confidence at the university yesterday and people thought I was nuts. Turns out Nate Silver was accurate.
The best news is I will be getting fewer e-mails. I did forward one which I got from Barack shortly after 11pm. He graciously thanked me for my help....and then asked for money!!
The bigger news though may have been that Peter and Janet got power back. We felt so bad for them as they were leaving on Sunday, not knowing if they were going back to a house without power. And, when they walked in the door, they had no power. It did come back on later that night.
We had a nice weekend with them. Janet is cast-less, and on the long road to recovery. She is religious about her exercises, and we saw her even take a few steps.
The girls went to Great Barrington and the boys went for a walk in the woods. We watched a movie about Marilyn Monroe, which was actually better than we all thought. We listened to the Princeton football game, which we narrowly lost on some bad calls at the end of the game. They always seem to go against us.
Earlier in the week, John and Marilyn came over as they were without power. They watched us have dinner and then we saw the news together/ By the time they got home, their power had been restored.
Other news: Mary is getting over a long, bad, lingering cold. She seems to be finally on the mend. We watched a little of another big college game, which we know Joe was also taking in: Alabama-LSU. Margaret and Andrew were "Back to the Future" for Halloween. (We didn't have any trick-or-treaters, but we fortunately had only bought a few small bags to eat on our own.)
Mary joined me at UMass last week for a lecture on the Greensboro NC truth and reconciliation process. We were unaware of KKK shootings there in 1979, where perpetrators were aquitted even though there was video of them shooting. One of the survivors was there, and was still severely disabled. And understandably bitter and vengeful.
We think Annie had a GRE test about now. Hope it went well. Love from up here.
And hope you all are well.
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