Today was a very interesting day.

It started out like any other, really. Get up, have breakfast, consider studying, consider running, turn up nose at both, curl up with a book and Randi Rhodes, etc.

Then I packed my bag and trotted off downtown for a rally at the capital in honor of the 32nd anniversary of Roe v Wade.

Something happened while I was there. I don't know what it was. It wasn't really any different than any other rally I'd been to; a bit chilly perhaps, but nothing spectacular.

Something inside me changed.

It was a Grinch-esque moment, if you will, even though I am a pro-choice woman and was surrounded by pro-choice people, waving signs and chanting and cheering at drivers who honked as they passed.

Still, it was like my heart grew two sizes. Something *changed*.

It was like a lightning bolt.

Everything that I'm working toward (law degree) came even more sharply into focus. Everything I've ever said about my political beliefs rang in my ears. Everything made even more sense.

I drove home, read more of bell hooks' wonderful Feminism Is For Everybody as I sat in traffic, cooked some dinner and popped in the evening's rental (hooray for gift cards!), Iron Jawed Angels. I wasn't expecting much, because I trust Hollywood executives about as far as I could throw a bulldozer.

It was actually pretty damn good.

Now I desire more. More movies, more books. My mind has opened this little door and all the desire I had to educate myself to feminist thought and theory and history has multiplied itself tenfold, rolling at the edges like a stormy sea.

In short: Gimme.