Election season is so very strange; granted, this is really only the second time that I’ve notably gone through it - my forced volunteering for the Green Party in 2000 nonwithstanding - but it already seems a tedious process, which may very well be due to projecting my own experiences on the whole affair: being relatively involved in activism last time around, and paying far too much attention in far too much depth far too early this time around…I feel myself unwillingly drawn into all of the sturm und drang - checking the NYTimes coverage, actually reading Wonkette again (though I have yet to reacquaint myself with the kossacks: needs more snark), nominally watching Fox News under the guise of “familiarizing myself with the other side” - and in the nostalgia of old excitement and the possibility–nay, the promise!–of change, I feel rather disheartened, knowing that my candidate of choice, The Honorable Dennis Kucinich, will never tower over great nation (in metaphor only, natch).