Dear Friends,

I get worked up/stressed about the political process even though I know that the candidates and media machinery is designed in fact to get us worked up -- good job they do.

I'm sitting here thinking about January 3, 2008 and how we will know the results of the Iowa Caucus on Jan 4. That's dumb. I don't know why I feel so such stake in the outcome. It is not really going to matter to me in any way, shape, or form. And yet I OBSESS.

I think that I will take a 100% break from Television news until after November 4, 2008. I like to be informed, but I can do that by checking a web site or two on the Internet here and there.

A few years ago I cut down on TV news considerably. Not is it time for a 100% boycott.

Maybe I can spend time/energy focusing on keeping myself level and maybe even happy sometimes (There's a thought!) -- it takes so much work to do this and I don't need tv messing it up.

I guess that this is one of my resolutions.

Mari