Okay, first let me say, I know I haven't posted in, oh...six months.  But the past is the past.  So anyway, here we go:

I spent about 2 hours on the Barack Obama website today creating a profile and searching groups and looking up events.  I've spent uncounted hours watching CNN's "Ballot Bowl".  I find myself thumbing through the paper looking for news on the election.

This is new to me.  I've never felt the need to follow politics so closely.  I think I normally feel like either way the political decision goes, it's not going to really matter all that much to me. 

No matter who I support, they aren't really representing what I believe in.  But for some reason, I find myself really believing that things CAN be different.  That a chance like this may not come around again for another 40 years.  Maybe even stranger, I find this election very personal to me.  So much that I would feel REALLY depressed if Obama did not receive the nomination.  Again, this is new to me.

So, here I am, posting a blog entry on a political candidate for a party I don't completely agree with, in a political system I don't completely believe in.  Before this year I was a cynic.  But I'm enjoying this breath of fresh air.

Thanks, Barack.