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I’ve been sick as a dog the last few days. My sore throat has turned into a nasty summer cold. I’ve taken about half this week off from work – I went in yesterday morning, came home in the afternoon, and I’m back at work today. I think yesterday was the peak. I had some leftover prescription decongestant from last winter’s flu season (the bottle said the medicine didn’t expire until December 2005), but it knocked me out. It made my eyelids feel like anvils. (Over-the-counter decongestants, which contain pseudoephedrine, don’t work for me, plus they keep me awake.) Today my head feels less congested and the gunk has moved to my chest. So now I’m taking cough medicine.

This may sound icky, but there’s nothing fulfilling like a productive hacking cough.

During my last big cough I suddenly thought to myself, “Everything’s coming up mucus,” sung in a big Mama Rose voice. But that’s kind of gross.

Blawgs/Seminole

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My finger seems to be normal again. That’s good.

Unfortunately, my throat has been sorer today than yesterday. I decided to take the day off from work. After Matt and I had lunch at Lemongrass, I went to the hardware store and bought new air-conditioner filters. Hopefully that’ll make things better.

I also went through my several boxes of memorabilia today (from childhood, adolescence, high school and college) and separated out about half the stuff to toss in the trash. God, I’ve been such a packrat. I don’t know why I was keeping my high school U.S. History notes or my DC Heroes role-playing game.

In other news, I’ve been thinking about starting a law blog (or “blawg”). Lately I’ve been writing lots of law-type stuff, and I’m not sure how interesting it is to my readers. On the other hand, I don’t know if I’d want to write about legal stuff enough to justify a daily law blog.

But this afternoon (and this will sound random) I finished reading Justice Souter’s dissent in Seminole Tribe v. Florida, a major Eleventh Amendment case from 1996. I studied the case in law school and saw a reference to it again recently, so I decided to print out Souter’s dissent and reread it. It’s a brilliant piece of scholarship, and it’s nearly three times as long as Rehnquist’s misguided majority opinion. Over the past 100+ years, the Supreme Court has fucked up the Eleventh Amendment beyond belief.

Anyway, I like having just one blog. Even if it doesn’t have a consistent focus, and some readers might be thrown off by some of the topics, this blog’s a reflection of me and of what’s going through my brain at any given time. And again, I don’t think I’m obsessive enough to keep up a daily blawg.

So I might as well just keep the one.