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*  The hell-cough refuses to die.  I think I'm going to have to have a re-fill on the antibiotics because I only have a two day dose left, and the cough still isn't dead! 

* I'm taking tomorrow off just 'cause (I have vacation days that are expiring at the end of the year so I may as well take some).  That gives me a long weekend.  And next week I'm only having to work Monday and Tuesday (I had been debating taking next Tuesday instead of this Friday, but hell-cough convinced me that rest sooner rather than later might be in my overall best interest).

* In the great wisdom of the Football Gods (and ESPN) the damn game this week is for 6:30 pm TONIGHT.   Having all but killed myself going to Saturday's game, I'm just going to have to burn this ticket (You can't give the thing away.  I've tried!  Been turned down four times.  No one wants to go to a Thursday night game where we could play our fourth string and still end up winning.)

* The Bama fan and the Auburn alum in me are in a tug of war over that Cam Newton scandal.  The Bama fan in me insists that if what's been more or less circumstantially confirmed is actually true, then it's pretty indefensible and Auburn fans splitting hairs about whether 'just' his father was involved are missing the point that it's against the rule (and repugnant) for a parent to shop their kids out to schools, so it seems that some sort of smackdown should  occur. On the other hand, the Auburn alum in me reads the rumors about what lurks under this particular rock (surely the rumors are too outrageous to be real.  Surely... ::fingers crossed::) and I'm appalled at how deep and how horrid this could actually turn out to be. If it really does reach as far as McGregor and Lowder (board of trustees at the university, one of which already under indictment for buying off legislators and the other part of an enormous bank failure and the morgage fraud that includes these days...and nearly cost the university its accredidation a decade ago by his having more influence over the school than its president), then it's beyond indefensible... so the Auburn alum in me desperately hopes that the 'larger conspiracy' is not true.   Surely it can't be.  Surely.  It reads like a Grisham novel.

*  Whether from illness or just ennui, I haven't been able to work on fanfic for weeks. It's hard to find Spuffy in the wake of the crap handed to us as the 'reunion'.  I keep reminding myself that the story I'm working on has been AU since before the comics started, but right now everything Buffy-wise feels tainted by the comic.  Did she ever care?  I had thought she had, even if she couldn't admit it.  Given how much she visibly doesn't care now, I have to wonder... was it just her way of balancing having used him in Season 6? ... But even that expresses more care than what's in the comics which amounted to "you're dying was studly, now shut up and let me take over your ship while I reduce Angel trying to kill you to a dick measuring contest."  Pushes Spike, flying towards the sun "Hope you don't go splat!" (that last statement is implied...).

*  LOL'd at The Middle last night as the dad performed the great feat of love of... watching Twilight: Eclipse with his teenaged daughter.   He's a good dad.

*  Also liked Phil bursting into tears on Modern Family  that his girls didn't need him any more with his girls subsequently bursting into tears that they can't handle that they made "Daddy" cry.  

* Still haven't settled on a Thanksgiving menu.  As it stands at the moment, Sis is in charge of the turkey.  Mom is in charge of the dressing.  I'm going to try to make a caramel tart as well as an arugula, pomegranate seed, and spiced pecan salad.  But that still leaves us several veggies short.  We'll need to nail down the menu this weekend for shopping lists.