woke up with a really horrible flu/cold thing this morning. completely stuffed nose, blocked ears, muscles hurt, sore throat my eyes were crusted shut it was horrible. i tried to get ready for work but soon realized how ridiculous that idea was and called in sick. i slept until 10, applied for a couple of jobs, and am now permanently on the couch until bed.

i bought the book Skinny Bitch yesterday thanks to the 25% educator discount currently going on at barnes and noble. the book started out good, the gals who wrote it are anti-sugar, anti-white flour, REALLY anti-fake sugar (ie splenda and equal). that is stuff i can believe, but then they started to get weird. by chapter 4, im wondering if they are secretly living on a commune growing and eating their own food.
in addition to being vegetarian, and continually calling eating meat "consuming decomposing and rotten carcasses", they are anti-any kind of medicine (pain medicine, allergy medicine, cold medicine--anything), and anti-milk. they actually compare drinking milk to drinking your mothers breast milk as an adult. because they feel its that ridiculous.
despite how WEIRD they got later in the book....i hope it does help make some fat bitches into skinny bitches somewhere in the world.

in other news, we leave for NJ for a race on Saturday morning at 6. six hour drive to NEW JERSEY! here we come. 2 people+2 dogs+1 bike+race luggage in a prius. entertaining at least!