as Election Day nears, my temperature rises.  I feel lied to and manipulated so much!!! Grrrr.  (Un)fortunately, I haven't spent a great deal of time doing my research- I saw a little of the debates, I've read stuff in biased papers- I've talked w/ people, I've seen some of the commercials.  Tonight, I went on a site called Candidate Map, and it was rather helpful.  It doesn't have a complete base- especially quoting Nader- What it does it has general categories, and quotes from each candidate on that topic- so you can judge for yourself what his stance is.  I can say that I wasn't really surprised w/ what I read (or the checkmarks I made)- I have a chart I've made- and every candidate at least has some points.  Some are not in the running for me- way different than what I'd support.  I know it's not good to get angry too much, but this election is important to me, and will have a big impact on our country.  (I feel like my eyes are burning.) Yeah, so I don't know why I take it to heart in such a big way!  Maybe there's something else going on with me that makes me want to fight, and I've just been channeling it through politics.  I don't even think that's fair to say, because I haven't had discussions/debates w/ anyone, I've just consumed all the 'info' I can.

soon, I'll consume some sleep.  Doesn't sleep just sound so good sometimes?