Posting

Wow, it's been a month? It's amazing how little has been going on. I did have my 26th birthday, which was pretty non-noteworthy. I got Blue Planet DVDs from Alma to accompany the Planet Earth she got me last year, which was nice, and my parents got me both a subscription to The Economist and the Rosetta Stone software for Tagalog, which I really need to get started on. So I got everything I really wanted, which is always nice.

Class has started up for this quarter and my time is already running pretty short. I'm just praying that as few Cubs playoff games as possible are scheduled on Monday and Thursday nights, although I'm also praying, of course, that there are as many Cubs playoff games as necessary for a title. If the expense of that is me having to watch a couple on DVR, I could live with it. If a potential World Series clincher was on one of those days, maybe I could make an exception (we get one free skip).

Politics are making me ill. I really just need to avoid this garbage until Election Day. And no offense, but if you're voting for McCain you're probably an idiot.

Old!

Happy birthday to my sister, who makes me feel incredibly old by turning 21 today. I know it's been a while since I was 21, but to think that it's fully four years behind me is a little crazy.

For the record: a present is on its way shortly.

Hot blooded, check it and see

I almost never get sick, as most of you know, but this was kind of a bad week. First, I didn't get a ton of sleep any of the nights (probably 6 and a half hours max), and then on Friday, a water main broke at Belmont and Sheridan. Traffic on the Drive was redirected all the way to Irving Park, including my bus. I had to walk back 15 minutes to the apartment in sub-zero wind chill. By the end of the evening I had a small cough, but by this morning it had turned into a horrible dry hack. My voice is shot and my fever is creeping up on 102 (101.7 last I took it). I'm taking Sudafed Cold and Cough but it hasn't done a whole lot yet, despite the fact that I've done little since 1 pm today besides sleep.

A bad way to start the Alma birthday update, unfortunately, especially considering I'm missing birthday dinner with her family right now (after catching the one with her friends last night). Happy birthday, baby. Hopefully this doesn't keep us apart all weekend.

Cola nuts

First of all, a slightly belated birthday shoutout to my dad, who turned 35 for an unspecified number of times on Friday. I got him the new Shins album, which I also picked up for myself on Tuesday. A review of that is coming soon.

In the meantime, Drew and I did another pop taste test on Saturday, this time a test of colas (Drew, for some reason, was very interested in doing a cola taste test). It was more interesting than you might think at first, but ultimately it was kind of... well, why spoil it? The results of our endeavor are linked from the Soda/Pop Page.