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Well, it seems I could only outmaneuver the cold/flu bug for so long. Today, I woke up feeling drained, with a kind of sore-ish throat and a mild cough. My eyes are kind of dry, and there’s definitely some phlegm or something in my chest.

After witnessing Aaron’s marathon week-long battle with this bug, I know it’s likely to get much worse before it gets better. We’re armed with sugar-free and alcohol-free cough syrup and two kinds of cold tablets, though, so maybe it won’t suck as bad for me as it did for him.

*bracing myself*

OMG. The lengths these Japanese girls will go just to get that wide-eyed Western look. I mean, check it out:

Sheryl—you’ll have to ask Mariko if she swabs her eyelid with glue and pokes a stick in her eye as part of her daily makeup routine.

How amusing. Someone made a kind of flash animation music video to the Pearl Jam song “Yellow Ledbetter.” However… whether or not it was intentional (and I’m still not sure), the animation includes wonderfully misheard lyrics. Now, granted, I couldn’t understand a damn thing Eddie was saying in the first place, but I know this ain’t it.

Flash animation | Real lyrics (for reference)

Um… is it bad that I did a report on Milton Glaser in my Intro to Graphic Design class, and I didn’t realize he was still alive?

*facepalm*

For a fascinating interview with Milton Glaser, courtesy of Adobe, check this out.

Just got done with Das Taxes. We bought a $10 book at Barnes and Noble today about filing your 2005 taxes, and it was actually helpful. Worth the ten bucks. Unfortunately, we just barely missed being able to itemize our shit. We gave it a shot, though, and we know what kinds of receipts to save for next year.

So, let’s hear it for having our Federal tax refund to fund our summer vacation. w00t.

Aaron’s quotable for the evening? “Use tax? Suck my left fuckin’ buckeye.”