That’s what people keep telling me about voting, that it takes too much time.  Well, to be fair, it took me & Lizzy about 40 mins to vote, but let’s be generous.  Let’s say 45 minutes.  What else could you do in 45 minutes once a year?  It’s the same amount as time spent:

1. Sitting through the season premiere of Gray’s Anatomy thinking, “Is this for me?  I don’t even remember all the characters.  Wait, wasn’t she married to him and now she’s gay and dating her?  Oh man…”
2. Sampling everything at the Halloween party, including the cupcakes that you know are so wrong but taste so right
3. Fast forwarding to the good part in songs (per year)
4. Doing one load of laundry in just the dryer part (might not include folding)
5. Doing the once-every-three-month “do these jeans still look good?” check
6. Start to finish on Zatarain’s Red Beans & Rice
7. Wishing someone’d rein in their kid on the way to work (one way)
8. Wondering if the Mentalist is any good or there are just a lot of signs, like what happened with White Chicks.
9. In the once a week so-called “awkward 45,” the minutes between work and the place you said you’d be an hour later, a.k.a. the time you usually spend getting the majority of your greeting cards
10. Per year wondering if that’s your phone only to see someone else picking up their phone and being like, “man, I should change my ringer.”
11. Not changing your ringer.
12. Reassuring your mom that you’re coming home for Christmas (“No, seriously, it’s booked.  I can tell you a seat number.”)
13. Pondering whether people really do check to see if your business cards came from here.
14. Blogging a once a year vote post.

Go out there an get ‘em, Tiger!  Go vote!