Today, for the first time ever, I heard an Obama ad on the radio. WTF? Illinois is solidly pro-Obama, right?

Indiana is a toss-up state. He's got a huge organization there.

It wasn't until McCain and Obama shook hands that I realized that McCain isn't a whole lot shorter than Obama.

Isn't he, though? I saw something saying he was the shortest major candidate since Dukakis.

Randomly, I just looked up my minion's birthday, and she was born in 1985. Christ -- no wonder she doesn't know anything!

Also impressive is how fast the comments achieve Godwin's law.

Yeah, because Hitler was always buying half-hours of primetime....

Today, for the first time ever, I heard an Obama ad on the radio. WTF? Illinois is solidly pro-Obama, right?

Me, too! I was equally surprised to hear it. The only thing I could figure is that the station I heard it on, WGN, is picked up across the Midwest, including in WI and IN, so they figured they'd get a three-fer with that particular station.

Today, for the first time ever, I heard an Obama ad on the radio. WTF? Illinois is solidly pro-Obama, right?

There have been television ads for him here in very blue Maryland (on Bravo mostly, I don't know if because that's where they are running mostly or because that's the station I watch most often).

It wasn't until McCain and Obama shook hands that I realized that McCain isn't a whole lot shorter than Obama.

I thought McCain was like 5'7" and Obama was 6'1"?

There was a guide to presidential candidate heights and weights going around this week but I can't remember from where.

A random question for y'all--now that I'm working at B&N part-time and have to ask people for their phone numbers at the register (to look up their membership cards), I've noticed that a lot of school-aged kids will give me the 1 before the area code and phone number. I've never heard that from any other demographic.

Is that typical elsewhere in the country?

I've noticed that a lot of school-aged kids will give me the 1 before the area code and phone number.

Huh. I would think that kids would be more used to cellphones and not give the one.

(I'm working at home today because my vertigo is OUT OF CONTROL today)

Oh, ugh. I had some pretty bad vertigo a while back, and it just sucked. And nothing they suggested helped me. Good luck with that....

I forget that not everyone goes into Bitches. I woke up with it out of the blue on Sunday, and I couldn't get out of bed all day (bathroom trips were so not fun). One of my ears felt "full," and I had some ringing in my ear.

Went to doctor Monday; he said it was fluid built up in one ear from allergies, and also a moderate ear infection. Gave me antibiotics and a drug for motion sickness, which I guess has helped a little bit, but not much.

Woke up Wednesday and could not hear out of my formerly "good" ear. At all. Well, there's a lot of ringing in it; does that count as "hearing"? Went back to doctor that day; he said that formerly-good ear now has a lot of fluid built up, but it looks sterile. (Yay?)

So now I have a monstrously high dose of steroids to try to get all the inflammation to de-inflammate, along with a GIANT HORSE PILL antibiotic, and the not-so-effective motion-sickness medication. And the doctor also recommended I take sudafed and claritin to help with the allergic reaction that caused all the fluid to build up.

I am taking enough medication right now that my pee is probably deadly.

The vertigo was lessening over the week, but when I woke up this morning, it was as bad as it was on day 1. But if I don't whip my head around, and stay still, I can use the computer, so I called in and asked them to e-mail me stuff to edit.

Formerly good ear is still deaf and ringing, but I just started the steroids this morning. I'm hoping that by tomorrow things will be improving. And bloody hell, Saturday afternoon we have tickets for Cirque du Soleil. Nothing is going to keep me from that, even if I have to close my eyes for part of it.

And it has not escaped my attention that I am now officially diagnosed as a dizzy blonde.

According to the feature in the Times last week, lisah is right about the heights. I noticed a couple blog saying that McCain didn't look that short at the debate, tho. Heels?

Also impressive is how fast the comments achieve Godwin's law.

Blitzkrieg fast.