I know, I know:  I’m not keeping up with this blog.  I’m behaving very badly.  Useless.  But I promise I’ll do better, starting in, oh let’s say three days.

I’ve been preoccupied.  I am ashamed to admit that I am a hopeless political junkie.  Politics is my sport.  I’m checking polls literally hundreds of times a day.  Yes, I know the meaning of “literally.  I literally mean “literally.”  Again and again and again, starting with the DailyKos poll first thing in the morning and proceeding around and around like a crazy person until I pass out at night with my laptop open to FiveThirtyEight.com.

I could draw you a color-coded map right now, showing every state as red, pink, yellow (toss-up) light blue or dark blue.  It’s really kind of sad.  But it explains why I’m not pushing people for posts or writing my own.  I’ll be better in a couple of days.  And since this is a YA lit blog and not a political blog I’m not even going to tell you who I support.

Unless you click on the “More” button.

Sorry.  You need to understand:  I can’t help myself.