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Me: I just slept for thirteen hours!

Roommate: That is awesome!

Me: It was!

Roommate: You’re just in time for kickoff!

Me: THAT is awesome!

I’ve always liked fall. I’m especially glad it’s finally arriving this year - I can’t even remember a time when it wasn’t hot as hell outside. It’s time to get some apple cider and a pumpkin spice latte from Starbucks and watch some football.

The other good news is that I’m feeling a lot better than I was a couple days ago. I woke up Tuesday with what sounded like a smoker’s cough, but turned into nausea, dizziness, and a gnarly headache by the time I was ready for work. I slept all day Tuesday and went to to the doctor Wednesday to find out I had a bronchial infection. Spent most of the week in bed, because I’d get dizzy any time I was upright. It was Friday afternoon before I finally started feeling like I could get out of bed for more than an hour at a time, and I’m still not back to normal. I went into the office yesterday to try to catch up a bit, but I only made it a couple hours before I started to feel like crap.

So that sucks. I’m going to try to get some stuff done this afternoon while I’m watching football, and hopefully I’ll be able to make it through a full day tomorrow.

I’ve always loved October. When I was a kid, it was because of Halloween and my birthday - what five-year old doesn’t like presents and candy? Besides that, autumn has always been my favorite season, but especially October. I know you’re thinking that, technically, it’s still September, to which I say, technically, so’s your face.

Reasons it’s great:

1. It’s cooler outside. Those 95 degree days with 98% humidity sucked, a lot.
2. Football! Started in September, but it gets going full-swing in October.
3. Cider. Who doesn’t love cider?
4. Pumpkins. Most especially, Starbucks’ pumpkin spice latte and pumpkin scones. Love ‘em! I picked up a six-pack of pumpkin ale for the first time this year, and wasn’t impressed by the first bottle, but I think it’ll grow on me, just like St. Pauli Girl did.
5. Leaves. It’s just so pretty out there, don’tcha think?

I like the idea of the Pro Bowl. “We’ve been beating the snot out of each other for a few months - let’s go to Hawaii and do one just for fun!” It’s downright brotherly.

Plus, I like any football game where guys on the sidelines are wearing flip-flops.