This just in: Tomorrow--Tuesday, November 2--is midterm elections.

If that's news to you, then I'm afraid you need to visit the eye, ear, and nose doctor.

Get your eyes checked because you haven't noticed that everyone has re-landscaped their yards in election signs.
Make sure you don't have excess waxy buildup in your ears, because you've missed the debates, the youtube viral videos, the commercials, the radio interviews.
And check your nose, because if you can't smell the manure-slinging that's been happening across the country, you're . . . whatever the word is for someone who can't smell anything.

As a socially-concious America citizen, I've voted in almost every election (I think I missed a primary when I was in college) since I turned 18. In fact, you know what I did on my eighteenth birthday? I didn't go to the porn storn, I didn't buy cigarettes. I went and registered to vote. That's how crazy I am about it. I LOVE voting. I wish I could do it more often. I think it's exciting that I get to have an opinion on things that happen in our country. So many women in the world aren't allowed to have opinions about anything, even things that to me seem little--like what I want to wear that day. Voting is both an obligation and a privilege. To me, at least.

Tomorrow's elections are exciting, too, because for the first time in a long time, you can feel the tension and anticipation in the air. People CARE, when for so long, people were apathetic. But the last two presidential elections, and changes that have resulted because of them, have lit fires in people who were before content to watch the doings on television. Crucial things are hinging on tomorrow's voters. Power shifts, social change. Decisions are being, and will continue to be made, that may change the entire shape of our country and our government. To see citizens out there, being passionate about it for the first time in my life, is amazing. Voting matters again.

What's not to be excited about?

So who has two thumbs and will be first in line at her polling place tomorrow? THIS GIRL.