Ok, so three things are preventing me from posting as regularly as I’d like recently:

I’m taking an Italian class on Tuesday nights.  A class that has homework.

I’m about to have a decade birthday, and am freaking out about it.

The upcoming election has me in a total funk, and I’m spending so much energy worrying about the future of this country that there’s little energy left over for blogging.

And this is where I beg:  please, please, please, for my decade birthday present, please, please, please, may I have the good news that Barack Obama has been elected President?  Please?