Current location:	ESG lounge
Current mood:	recovering
Current music:	me, mumbling Caesar lines to myself like a crazy person
Entry tags:	10-250, banksy, cold, mural, obama

Obamaman, Murals, Illness
I know this is old news by now, but the inauguration was awesome. Watched it in the MIT main lecture hall with the rest of the college - students, professors, janitors, the deans, all mushed in together watch History Being Made (TM). Everyone went around grinning for the rest of the day. Also, unsurprisingly, the biggest cheer in the lecture hall was for the part of the speech about "putting science back in its rightful place".



Also, been painting a mural on my old hall - sort of a Banksy-esque paradise-through-brick-wall kinda thing. Almost finished...though my plans to get it done before classes start have pretty much failed.



I have been a little ill with the Cold of D00m that has been plaguing MIT campus in general and both Fenway House and the cast of Julius Caesar in particular. Thankfully, I'm recovering pretty well thanks to a mix of Tylenol, echinacea tea, ginger, lemon and honey. I swear, it is like a miracle drink. My friend Noel was not so lucky - he has various problems with his immune system, so when he caught said Cold of D00m he collapsed and we had to call an ambulance on him. Six hours of swabs, blood tests and spinal taps proved that he only had a cold and not the flu/meningitis/HIV/the black plague etc, which was good news for the rest of us, I suppose, but not much fun for poor Noel.

I'm finally moved into my new room! Pictures will follow soonish, once I unpack my camera cable.