still stuffy, but i am not taking any more sudafed. no no no. i’ve also discovered another funny side effect of this stupid cold–odd sleep patterns. when i felt like crap last weekend and didn’t feel like doing anything but sleep, i became an insomniac. i had tons of trouble falling asleep and then staying asleep; as a result, i only got like 6 hours of restless sleep each night when i needed more like 12. but now that the cold is starting to go away and i don’t need the sleep, i’m sleeping so well that it’s damn near impossible to drag myself out of bed in the morning! despite going to bed before 11 last night, this morning i hit the snooze button for a solid 45 minutes before finally crawling into the shower a little after 8. i didn’t make it to work until 9:00, but that’s ok since i was here till 6 last night.
yeah, work is picking up. i have been tasked with a couple new tasks in the past few weeks, and becca and i have been working on an extended abstract for a paper we’re hoping will get accepted for the aiaa flight mechanics conference in austin in august. so there’s plenty to do, not to mention we’ve been planning our colorado trip!
last night i was having second thoughts about going due purely to the money i’d have to spend, but today becca found even cheaper accomodations and rental cars (there are either 5 or 7 of us going depending on the shuttle flight schedule), and the plane tickets to denver are dirt cheap right now, so it looks like i can do the whole 4 day/3 night trip for under $500. that includes a baseball game, one day of skiing, one day of lounging, car, lodging, plane ticket, gas, ski rental, and even food if i eat relatively inexpensively. excellent!
so i watched this very interesting documentary on the travel channel last night about the concorde and i have made a decision. once i am out of debt, i’m going to start putting away a bit of money each month and when i have enough, i’m going to buy myself a round-trip ticket from new york to london or paris on the concorde. hurrah! british airways even runs specials sometimes that when you buy one concorde ticket, you get another for free! that way, i could talk a friend into splitting the $7000-12000 price tag. 
