Distraction
I will be glad when this election is over. Not because I'm tired of the process, but because I spend too much time reading news about it. I think today I will have to reinstate blocking of certain web sites when I am at work, so I don't sit around for hours popping between four or five of them waiting for something new to happen (in lieu of working).

I have been like this at least since 1992, the first presidential election where I could vote; I remember spending way too much time reading newspapers and news magazines in the library and watching CNN Headline News and the NewsHour on PBS and what online news sources there were back in those days.

And it's not like I didn't decide which side I'd vote for, oh, a little less than four years ago. I disagree with the current Republican party on so many social issues that I can't imagine voting for them. I guess I'm the political equivalent of a rabid sports fan, except I just consume the analysis instead of the events themselves.