I have a very bad cold and my ears seem to be blocked. Sounds seem muffled and I keep asking people if I am too loud. I can't tell. I am so careful about not shouting that everything I say comes out in a whisper. There has to be an easier way to do this.

 

I read Eoin (Sp?) Colfer's "The Wish List" and Soph, I liked it. I didn't expect to. It is about a 15 year old girl, a slightly older guy and a dog who die during a robbery. The guy ends up in hell but the girl has equal amounts of good and bad so she is sent back to earth as a ghost to fulfill the wishes of the old man they were in the process of robbing when they died. Throw in a silly St. Peter, a Game Boy obsessed Satan, a freaked out Beezelbub, a snarky old man, a sarcastic hologram and a boy-dog morph thingy, and it is all quite entertaining. Silly, yes, but a half hour well spent.