Exercising my citizenship

I wrote to my Congressman yesterday.  (Well, I actually messed up and wrote to two Congressmen, of whom only one is actually my Congressman.) I wrote to encourage him to stand up against the renewed push towards drilling in the Arctic Refuge and offshore, and instead to put more emphasis on alternative/renewable energies.  I received a response - an actual response from an actual Congressman (it wasn’t from the one who actually represents me, but hey, it’s something).  It wasn’t a form letter from a staffer!  And I wrote back this morning, in greater depth. 

And do you know how fantastic it feels to think that I’m having some say, no matter how small, in the way things are run?  Pretty bloody fantastic, let me tell you!