June 17, 2005 12:02 AM

Land of the free (health care)

I'm back in the T-dot, and not a moment too soon. I've fully recovered from bronchitis but it appears that my super drugs did such a good job of killing my germs that it also killed a few good ones. Now I'm battling an onslaught of other grisly infections.

On a happier note, I'm doing the whole pomp and circumstance thing on Saturday. My mom wanted to get me a bouquet of flowers so I can look pretty in the pictures she plans on sending to her friends, but she wanted me to choose the bouquet. I'm allergic to pollen, I can't really justify spending $30 on 3 flowers and I don't really feel like holding flowers whether they are real or fake (flowers, tall shoes, long dresses... why is it customary to impede a woman's mobility?) so I guess that settles that.