The View From Kalamazoo

It’s 5:30. This nasty cold I’ve caught from my darling boy started trying to move into my lungs to make buddy-pals with my asthma Wed., not unusual, but has also moved into my ear. The pain got me up, after tossing and clock-watching for a good 45 minutes, an hour ago, I had finally fallen asleep around 1:00, unable to breathe. Yes, it does suck to be me, thanks for asking.

SO I’ve padded downstairs to curl up in a fleece throw, drink something warm, and take more cold meds and ibuprofen. I’ve been working all week, despite this foul plaque that has befallen me, because I started Program layout Monday and the deadline does not allow for illness, maiming, or accidental death. I’ll need to go in today, too, but I’m very close to finishing so I think I can make it a short day and use some precious sick leave in the afternoon – all but the indices are off my desk for proofing, and despite University closure Monday I’ll likely go in and keep plugging away at last-minute changes and alterations. Yippety. OH SO many sessions, my friends, oh yes. (and, of course, many of those I would most like to attend are early in the day Thursday – when I’m unable to get away at all. Drat!<~!B*+R^&><~!B*+R^&>So there’s not a lot of interesting viewability on the tube early in the AM. Really not. SO I huddle up and start watching some local channel’s early news program, hear our local weather (present conditions and forecast: colder than a witches’ tit in a bwitch’srassiere), sip my cocoa (when did I run out of teabags? which child swiped my tea ball?). Tsunami, malaria, and then sports news dominates – and usually I ignore that coverage because I enjoy no sports, watch no sports, am no sports fan. And yes, I’m OK with that.

But I’m moderately delerious from the pain.deliriousopped the remote. So I watch.

Can someone answer a question for me? How the hell can Eric Barton be fined only $7,500 for that much-replayed nasty hit to Drew Brees and Randy Moss be fined $10,000 for a simulated moon? In what universe is a stupid, rude, and childish gesture worthy of more punishment than a forearm to the head that could have resulted in a serious injury for Brees?

I will never understand the politics of sports. Yes, I’m OK with that, too.