I am so glad it's thursday...which means it's Martini night but being sick and all I totally wussed out and now I'm sippin' gin and juice on my fly laptop loungin' in my pad...(the comic possiblities seem to be outweighing the mis-use of high quality gin)

It really sucks that my favorite show isn't on....I dunno what happened to Good Morning, Miami but I really miss that show....especially since I dunno what happened after love triangle was revealed..... (oh, man, I am sooo not manly right now) I really what know what's going to happen (or happened, as the case maybe)

The one thing that really chapped me today.....Toyota is entering the Craftsman truck series...what could possibly be more unamerican than that!?!?!?! I can't freakin' believe...I figured that if any japanese automaker would do that, it be Nissan whose french owners would be arrogent enough to fly such a bird to the american market.....that has to be something that I' neverthought I'd see in my lifetime....what a messed up world....
check out Car and Driver & The Car Connection (article in the middle of page...there's a picture)

I didn't have a chance to check out the chicago auto show until today...nothing really cool....the Subaru Forester XT is kinda interesting...but it's too much like a station wagon while trying to be an SUV, in my opinon...

lessee, nothin' much going on as I write...in the hospital with Jay right now while christa drops off hand-outs and notes to her TA class. Talk about a messed up week...first her prof has to leave town for due to mitigating circumstances and then christa has mitigating circumstances...somehow, I think that this class is being cancelled by acts of god or something. You shall not teach this to university students! It will not be known! Or something....maybe there is no fate, just a series of interconected events that lead to one ineviatable end which, judging from the laws of thermodynamics, is uniform distribuation of matter through out the universe...although the big bang theory does have this nasty little asterick where the universe may not stop expanding and is instead rendered as a sub-vacum of absolute nothing without even time, I suppose. If nothing is changes, is there time? I mean time just seems to the unit of change as opposed to some mysterious, uniform force like electricity or magnetism or gravity. No doubt I'll have a more coherent thought (or train of) to add on when I actually post this.

okay, so i didn't actually have a more coherent thought after that today....I'm glad we're home and presumably there's nothing to worry but the whole experience was incrediably frustating considering there was no firm diagnosis and no consult by any doctor other than a surgeon....who's only interest was appendix, appendix, appendix....oh, well....home....home...home...at least it's back to normal...

Well more tests and still no concensus but at least we are home.... I need sleep. They sent us home after eliminating all probable causes. But still wouldn't say it was virual even after all that...Hope all is well and it is just some harmless virual thingie.... They finally said that she seemed to be doing fine other than a little abdominal pain and therefore there was no reason for us to stay. UGHGHGHGHGHGH I hate hospitals.

well, today has just been stressful and long. Jay got admitted last night at 1:30 for observation after showing up in the ER at 6:30 with stomach cramps. Now they've held her all day and there's really been no consensus other than she doesn't need her appendix out now...so I've been at the hospital or home with the other girls while trying to recover and Christa has been at the hospital all day...right now it's the annoying sit and wait, any answer seems better than no answer...especially considering an appendix is a relatively minor thing nowadays...

I'm so cool, too bad I'm a loser
I'm so smart, too bad I can't get anything figured out
I'm so brave, too bad I'm a baby
I'm so fly, that's probably why it
Feels just like I'm falling for the first time

I'm so green, it's really amazing
I'm so clean, too bad I can't get all the dirt off of me.
I'm so sane, it's driving me crazy
It's so strange, I can't believe it
Feels just like I'm falling for the first time

Anyone perfect must be lying, anything easy has its cost
Anyone plain can be lovely, anyone loved can be lost
What if I lost my direction? What if I lost sense of time?
What if I nursed this infection? Maybe the worst is behind
It feels just like I'm falling for the first time
It feels just like I'm falling for the first time

I'm so chill, no wonder it's freezing
I'm so still, I just can't keep my fingers out of anything
I'm so thrilled to finally be failing
I'm so done, turn me over cause it
Feels just like I'm falling for the first time

Anything plain can be lovely, anything loved can be lost
Maybe I lost my direction, what if our love is the cost?
Anyone perfect must be lying, anything easy has its cost
Anyone plain can be lovely, anyone loved can be lost
What if I lost my direction? What if I lost sense of time?
What if I nursed this infection? Maybe the worst is behind

Barenaked Ladies - Maroon - Falling for the First Time

ugh, so bored and nothing to do on the web...bother...I need to finish my paper but it's so hard to write when I'm sick.

Annoyance of the day: it's a toss-up, seeing as I have three or four front runners...being bumped from my doctor's appointment because of the weather and having to come back in the afternoon, having sick children, or my wife having to run sick child to the emergancy room...

Highlight of the day: Getting hot tea and a bagel....nothing like that warm, fuzzy feeling

I am sooo sick I could just die right now...I think an army of bacteria have taken up residence in my lungs...the weird part is it just hit me all of a sudden last night at about nine. I felt okay, just a little under the weather, and then bam! I have a killer fever and couldn't get warm....I defintely feel better than last night but I can barely breathe and it just feels like someone is standing on my chest....

yea! I got most of my spanish done....although being hammered is making it really hard to finish my homework...

matt and kim went out with christa and me to hooters...we let him pick ('cuz he was buying to make up for my birthday)...big surprise...but hey, we all had a good time and I really can't complain if the worst that happened was being hammered...

He really is sick..... my pooo baby.... But he will get his spanish done ;) I have to prepare a lecture for class this week... Gotta love Ethics.

I have to bust my ass at homework today....at the very least get my spanish stuff done for this week...and, of course, I feel sicker than a dog right now....ugh

When I say I record, I mean vinyl record....I don't even own a turntable but they were just too damn cool to pass up and my office needs something....

Yeah, so here's my attempt at a journal...hopefully this will last more than 2 posts like last time...so...here's what I did today...

-slept until noon because it's saturday and I never see my wife
-went to the mall and bought two NIN records
-priced out building a wireless network...

oh, yeah, and went to Waffle House....it's just got that campy '70s feel...and the food's good and cheap, too