ONE MORE DAY!!

Very exciting times are upon us ... one more day until my main squeeze Barack Obama is officially in the White House. Yay for us!

Other news of the day? My brother thinks I have walking pneumonia. Double yay for me.

Also, because I will likely be posting POTUS news all week in honor of this historic moment, I just want to share with you my latest act of pathetic-ness. On par with the time I cried alone while watching American Idol.

So, as you may or may not know, I am part of the 10 people in America who still watches McLaughlin Group. Yeah, it is pretty geeky, but I enjoy all the yelling about political issues no one really cares about except for this 5 person panel and the 10 people who watch the show. Anyway, they were talking about Obama's ode to Michelle in The New Yorker, and it was so freakin' beautiful. Ew, they are so perfect, it kills me.

"Michelle is a tremendously strong person, and has a very strong sense of herself and who she is and where she comes from. But I also think in her eyes you can see a trace of vulnerability that most people don't know, because when she's walking through the world she is this tall, beautiful, confident woman. There is a part of her that is vulnerable and young and sometimes frightened, and I think seeing both of those things is what attracted me to her.

And then what sustains our relationship is I'm extremely happy with her, and part of it has to do with the fact that she is at once completely familiar to me, so that I can be myself and she knows me very well and I trust her completely, but at the same time she is also a complete mystery to me in some ways. And there are times when we are lying in bed and I look over and sort of have a start. Because I realize here is this other person who is separate and different and has different memories and backgrounds and thoughts and feelings. It's that tension between familiarity and mystery that makes for something strong, because, even as you build a life of trust and comfort and mutual support, you retain some sense of surprise or wonder about the other person."

How can you not want to have Obama's baby after this?!? Though, to be honest, I (yes, even I) am starting to suffer from Obama fatigue ... just hurry up and become the President already. All this optimism is starting to make me cranky.