I just voted! I feel like that time I was talking about my latent patriotism, only now it is bubbling up something fierce, rather than dissipating. Someone told me the other day that if you're a Republican when you're young, you have no heart, and if you're a Democrat when you're old, you have no brain. Apparently people say that. I don't know about that. I do know that I am ridiculously fired up right at this minute and I just got a little misty-eyed. I'm so excited that I feel like if I don't go to this other girl's office and grin foolishly at her without saying anything because the people in the offices around hers don't feel the same way we do, then I shall simply burst. Or type more overly dramatic, awful, nonsensical, poorly constructed crap on my blog. Whatever. Seriously. Also, I love you and if you don't vote today, I'm coming to your house to prattle on nonsensically at you in person about how you should be ashamed and if you don't respect yourself then you can't respect anyone else (apparently when I get all worked up I throw in random phrases from my mom's speeches-although the ashamed part is all me and I mean it!). Keep that in mind. I have clearly lost mine. Therefore, I'm not going to tell you whose side I voted for, so as not to unduly influence your opinion of supporters of ________. I schooled some people at my polling place about how Starbucks is not allowed to ask you for proof that you voted when you tell them you want your free cup of coffee. Eeeww. But it is illegal and now you know. I'm just excited. Like the kind of excited where you're not sure what's going to happen but you can't wait because you think it's going to be good, whatever it is. Yeah, like that.