AAARRRGGGHH!!! I KNEW IT!!! Stupid Blogger! They've just moved to a new beta version, partnering with Google, which is fine - the service really was due for an update and a lot of things about it look better now. BUT... now I have that godforsaken NavBar at the top of the page. Most people's Blogger blogs have had that for a long time now, but I've had my blog since the pre-ad days, therefore when they started up that system, I just got the OPTION of having it - a 'check yes or no' sort of thing. And I was smart enough never to click Yes on that option, because I was sure it wouldn't let me go back. And thus I have been living for the past, oh, two years, amazed at my own cleverness. And when I first saw the 'Switch to the NEW version of Blogger!' link, a few months ago, my first thought was, "Oh, I don't THINK so - that's just a way to stick that stupid NavBar at the top!" So I didn't switch. But today, the whole page was revamped, and the FAQs said that although we didn't strictly HAVE to switch now, within a couple of months, we would be required to. So I decided to just go ahead and do it. And what do you know... I was right. Tacky blue bar... aloha. Sigh.

Anyway, so... news:

1.) I'm going home for Thanksgiving after all ... my aunt and uncle are driving down from South Carolina on Wednesday morning, so I'm driving to their house Tuesday night and hitching a ride with them the rest of the way. It feels weird to be going home, but I'm excited, too.

2.) I've been running 4-5 days a week for about a month now, training for the half marathon, and was sort of half-hoping that all that effort might, as a side benefit, make me drop a couple of pounds. Instead, I have just had my conclusion reaffirmed: that I gain muscle mass with a vengeance that would make a wrestler jealous. The numbers on the scale are exactly the same - a little higher, even - and yet I've gotten a number of comments in the past week about how huge my calves are. And, sure enough, I tried to wear my boots out to dinner the other day and couldn't zip them up all the way. *shakes head* Ridiculous. I don't exactly mind, but still... ridiculous.

3.) The Josh Groban concert ticket presale starts tomorrow at 10am... believe me, you'll hear about it one way or the other, be it in ecstasy or anger.

4.) 13 more school days... and a 15-page paper, an 8-page paper, a 5-page paper, and 3 final exams.

I feel like there was more I wanted to say, but now I can't remember......