Ugh. I've had this nagging flu / sore throat / achy-all-over thing since my first day in Berlin last Monday. While it didn't completely ruin my time there, it did put a damper on things and made me slow down and skip a few activities I would have rather been doing instead of shivering under covers in the hotel room. Once the chills and fever broke, my generous bug gave me a sore throat to replace it. Awe, how sweet - it's just what I've always wanted! And so, after putting it off yesterday in hopes that it would go away on its own, I trudged to the doctor's office on a Saturday. It was walk-in only today, which tends to attract an especially homey crowd of teen parents towing around armfuls of babies they had no business having in the first place. After an hour of sitting in the filled-to-the-brim, coughy, sneezy, screamy waiting area, I finally saw a doctor - the lone doctor working today. He gave me a prescription for the usual penicillin-based pills that make my stomach queazy and I've spent the rest of the day fighting extreme gassiness.
But what really makes me sick is the race for President of the United States, namely the behavior of the socially awkward John McCain and his screechy-voiced, human rights-stomping running mate, Sarah Palin. The New York Times published a particularly biting article detailing her questionable demeaner behind the scenes that y'all should read HERE.
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