Due to the fact that the debates can't seem to last very long on the TVs in our house, and the other fact that I was far too lazy to move to a room with a TV in it, I decided to watch the debate tonight online. That way, I could watch while filling out music surveys on Facebook (read: doing my homework).

As it turned out, the only good live broadcast I could find was at CNBC, and it cut out after five minutes. So, I saw five whole minutes of the debate. Yeah! I'm such a good registered voter!

You may say that five minutes isn't enough time to make any judgments. I say it's plenty. In that five minutes, I saw all that I wanted to see.

The first words that came out of John McCain's mouth as soon as the video started were "earmarks on pork barrel projects." The first sound out of my mouth was a groan. Hasn't he talked about this like 50 bajillion times already? I don't even know what that is, and I've heard about it sooo many times.

OK, yeah, you're not George Bush. Battle scars. OK … Ugh. "Let me tell you, my friends …" This is where I gave up on pretending to fully understand what they were talking about. Instead, I watched their faces.

Let me tell you, my friends, if you have not done this, I'd say go onto YouTube and find videos of the debates, and just watch the faces. As McCain talked, Barack Obama was obviously listening, or he was at least trying really, really hard to make it seem like he was listening. His face was perfectly composed, except for a little smirk.

The corners of his mouth turned up just a little, just enough to tell me that Obama was very, very amused at what McCain was saying and was counting down the seconds until he got to respond.

Of course, his response was not anything very impressive. Or at least I'm assuming it wasn't. I didn't listen. I was far too busy watching McCain not just smirk; his face was that of someone who wanted to laugh really, really badly, but it was neither the time nor the place, like a kid in church who misheard the word "sects."

Anyway, the whole thing (that I saw) was just awkward, and what I heard was boring and sounded just like everything else that I've heard. Am I the only one who is pretty much bored to death by this entire thing right now?

The only thing I'm disappointed about was that I never heard about this now famous Joe Plumber. Ah, well. I'm going to bed.