chicken noodle soup with a soda on the side

I've been recovering from a sinusitis for the past week or so. My voice was all husky and cool sounding on Sunday, but now it's back to its usual effeminate squeal. I didn't actually eat any chicken noodle soup, just a bunch of Halls mentho-lyptus cough drops, Robitussin DM, Mucinex DM, and and Advil. This combination seems to work for me, although I may be suffering from a side effect of all that dextromethorphan (see today's Useless Knowledge).

The title comes from a song I heard on WZIP. If you're unaware of the song I'm referring to, you'll know it when you hear it.

I keep a listing of my weekly music listening trends over on the sidebar with a link to my Audioscrobbler profile. If you do happen to check on my schizophrenic listening habits, you might notice that I've been enjoying the new Lupe Fiasco album called Food & Liquor. His style is similar to Kanye West, but much less playful with his lyrics. If you like Common, you'll probably like Lupe Fiasco too.

In housekeeping news, you've probably already noticed the new layouts and some of the new tags. I think I'll remove the city tags because that list is going to get ridiculously long. I added links to Chance and Berto over on the sidebar and removed Allison's link because her friendster blog seems to have vanished. Check out Berto's guide to Austin for Ohio State fans if you have the time. It's inspired me to do something similar for San Diego, but that will have to wait until I'm actually a San Diegite.*

In running news, I'm picking up a new pair of kicks soon. They'll most likely be the Saucony Grid Hurricane 8, the successor to my current pair of shoes the Hurricane 7 (the ones I bought prior to the stress-fracture inducing Nike Air Zoom Vomero incident). I haven't decided if I'll put the outsole up in the title bar like it used to be, I think I'll make it a little different.

Check out today's Ohio State game vs. Penn State. Last year the entire student section at Penn State wore white and was absolutely crazy during the game, prompting Kirk Herbstreit (an Ohio State alum, no less) to call them the best student section in the country. OSU is planning a "Sea of Scarlet" in response to last year's "White Out" in Happy Valley. Should be cool to see on TV (especially a blimpified view). As always, GO BUCKS!

*Before you flame, go watch Anchorman again.

Useless Knowledge: The only side effect of opioid medications that the body does not develop a tolerance to is constipation.