Dear Rhinovirus-

I understand that you as a virus must inhabit something or someone to continue to survive.  Unfortunately, you're just not welcome here.  I also understand that we've been taught from a very young age that sharing is encouraged.  Unfortunately, sharing is why I feel like crap right now.  See - lots of people when they're sick continue to go out around the world - and I'm surprised of this because they are spreading you - Rhinovirus - to other (sometimes unsuspecting) innocent individuals.  Almost as convincing as the devil convincing the world that he didn't exist - Rhinovirus - you have succeeded in convincing people that they can "beat" the rhinovirus by merely running around public and trying to go about life as always.  Unfortunately, what they are really doing is just allowing you to hop from host to host.  

So here I am, nicely in a nearly comatose state thanks to NyQuil.  Hopefully another day of this and I'll be recovered.  We'll see.

One final to go...

Just one final to go until the end of the semester.  It's a take home, of course, and just 3 questions long.  So why is the maximum page limit 12 pages?  I was intimidated at first, but having since written the first question and ended up with 3.75 pages - perhaps the page limit isn't too far off.  Next semester was supposed to be the beginning of "no classes" and due to last minute additions of things that sounded interesting - I'm now taking 2 lecture courses.  Hopefully I'll also end up doing an okay job as the TA for the fMRI class.  Given that my knowledge of fMRI analysis is mostly modifying other people's scripts and pressing "go" -- I should learn quite a bit.  

Christmas shopping is over.  Everyone who is getting a gift, it's in my apartment.  At some point I'll wrap it all and then send them out.