various and sundry, which I probably use as a subject way too often

[golden_d]

• I would just like to say that this is awesome and I wish more people thought this way (I would settle for people actually thinking).
• Awesome time at the ballgame last night. Delayed and rainy, but awesome.
  
  • One sad thing: I wore my rainboots (I totally typed "brainboots" at first), for obvious weather-related reasons, but it's been awhile since I've had to break them out, and they're juuuuust the slightest too big, so I've got a bitch of a blister on my the back of my right foot and an only vaguely annoying one on my left.
• Still have the Cough of Doom, which is irksome for many reasons:
  
  • Phillies game tomorrow, and I will not be able to resist cheering and booing and yelling, which won't help the healing process;
  • choir starts next weekend, and I'd like to be completely healed by then;
  • I'm also attending a wedding next weekend, and I'd definitely like to avoid coughing throughout the ceremony;
  • I'm getting tired of not being able to:
    
    • consume dairy products (yogurt! milk! ice cream!)
    • have non-herbal tea (I'll have to be a lot sicker to give up coffee, though)
    • drink.
  • Also, I cannot talk nearly as much as I'd like to! But I try to talk anyway and I suspect that doesn't help my throat very much at all.
• Rediscovering Rilke. Rilke is awesome, although all I've read are his Book of Hours. The Duino Elegies are on my list, but - and honestly I am really depressed by this - I have no money for poetry right now. (I realize that the library exists for this reason. But I like to take my time with poetry, and for that, you need to own the books.)
  
  • Other poets I would love to delve into include:
    
    • Zbigniew Herbert
    • e.e. cummings
    • Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • But since I don't have money, I suspect that after Rilke I will reconnect with Whitman and Leaves of Grass.
• Woke up close to 12:30 today, after getting to bed around 2. I honestly hate sleeping that late (it feels so decadent, and it's not like I've been doing anything that deserves the gift of decadence); it completely throws off my sleep schedule. I'll probably be up until 2 or 3 tonight, so at least I can catch up on Season 1 of Leverage, or whatever episodes of Doctor Who that got DVR'd during the marathon yesterday on SyFy SciFi. (Edit: Ooh! Or I could catch up on Being Human, which I have been faithfully DVRing but haven't actually watched in like a month.)