Barack Obama IS coming to SoDak on Friday, and I think I surprised my boss by telling him why I wanted to leave early Friday afternoon (I don't know if he's surprised by my being a Democrat, or just the fact that I'm even remotely politically aware of anything, since I don't generally discuss such things at work--Unless it's with people I know I can have a rational, non-screaming-death match with--Not like the arguments I get into with my dad), but he said as long as I could have my desk covered, which I can, he was fine with that, so Blabs and her hubby and I will be joining many others at the Sioux Falls Arena Friday night! Boy, Mrs. Stage, my 6th-grade English teacher would be horrified at that run-on sentence. I'm kind of ashamed of it myself, but too excited to really care.