Good morning! The pep is courtesy a few things: I'm kinda getting the sometimes joy of driving - I drove the babe to daycare this morning in the stream of the most awesome college radio set which had me slapping the steering wheel and maybe speeding just a teeny bit - and now I am at work (where the first thing I did was hop on my computer and stream the station, natch) and he just threw in "Under Pressure" which is making me giddy. This area has three excellent college radio stations and a very good NPR station for which I am so, so grateful. Starting work giddy before project goals grind you back down into the dust is good.
Why else giddy? Do you feel a little momentum shift, a little hope, dare I say, on the politics scene of late? (Yawn, sorry, again with my damn politics) The little spark of hope and the flurry of signs around town and the fact that the letter writing campaign I belong to achieved their goal and wrote hand-written letters to 20,000+ sometime Democrat women voters in my town in just a month and a bit - yay, us! But yesterday I was waiting for the bus from Duke to UNC and an older woman with a clipboard and an Ob@ma pin was registering students. She approached me, I said I was registered (It's easier than explaining why I can't vote) and then I thanked her for volunteering, the way I always try to do. "I live in Boston" she said, "but I grew up in NC. Boston doesn't need me but NC does so I took a month of leave from my job. I left my husband there and moved in with my mom for a month and I'm out registering every day." I was gob-smacked but all I could say was "You are so awesome! Thank you!" and then she continued, "Growing up here, we wouldn't have been able to ride the bus together - and now I get to vote for him". And I swear to Jebus, we both had tears in our eyes. It made me feel good good good. People can be so good.
Also, the baby is just damn darling right now - so chatty and scooting around and happy and lovely. And my husband is in the same catagory. After taking care of her evening routine solo, as he does several times a week, he picked me up after a late class and delivered me to wine, crunchy tacos and a taped ANTM. Ahhh. I am in an ANTM pool and I just wish to announce that I am currently flying high, all three of my models "still in the running...". Knowing Tyra's Folly could end up netting me $100 makes it even more enjoyable.
I have a bajillion personal emails to return - some to some of you, you have no idea how much I appreciate your thoughtful words on loving the haters in our lives - and dang, I'm just so fond of people today that I best let it spill all over my keyboard and into the ether.