Despair: It's Catching

I'm not a huge fan of Romney by any means, and when I heard about the huge gaffe he allegedly made, I was expecting something juicier than the fact that he was caught despairing of certain blocs of voters.  Seriously, can you blame him?  People barely know which way is up, but they can recognize the difference between red and blue.  And I thought I was uninformed.

Such a Little Thing . . .

I love autumn, but unfortunately if I miss my medication by just an hour or two, I'm almost guaranteed to spend the day with my nose and eyes swollen shut.  Necessarily, all productive activity then comes to a standstill.  Also frustrating is that my medication seems to wear off a few hours before it's alleged 24-hour cycle, which means I have to remember to take it a little earlier each day.  I'd rather get up at night to take a pill than spend the next day beside a HEPA filter with an ice pack on my face.  I look forward to the cold barrenness of winter.

iTunes Highlight: David Garrett

My Pandora stations introduce me to all kinds of new artists, but I'm always a sucker for classical crossovers.  Today's highlight is David Garrett, born David Bongartz in 1980 to an American ballerina and a German lawyer.  He took his mother's maiden name for his stage persona because it was "more pronounceable."  David first took an interest in music at the age of four when his older brother was given a violin.  He was winning competitions by the age of five, and recording by thirteen.  Almost makes me sorry I gave up piano after two years.