is there any scientific proof linking water consumption to headaches? beccause i've got a fantastically painful headache, and i've consumed a lot of water tonight. i've also played video games and watched the office. i also ate meatloaf for the first time in at least six years. it was not heart-shaped meatloaf, a former mom-rud tradition. [one of her oddest, it should be noted.] perhaps the meatloaf caused it.

awful news revealed tonight: nbc's moving the office and my name is earl to thursday nights. this means, presumably, that these two shows will anchor thursdays once will and grace ends its run (i've never seen w & g, but i know it's ending this season, right.) this means, i would imagine, that they'll get dumber. (for the record, i don't like earl. chuckles, not laughs. the office is belly-laughs only, i think.) this also means the the boy-fueled hope that nbc would buy the rights to arrested development and have it join the office and earl in a not-laugh-track-fueled tuesday (that was my idea) is quite unlikely. i'll miss arrested development.

i'd like to state that i'm quite excited about the sun bowl, although i'll be in the C-H-I instead of the E-L-P. but it's CBS' only bowl, and always gets more network-fed publicity that "Big Ten No. 5 vs. Pac-Ten No. 3" deserves. i'm confident, but that's because i always am. i've got 4 1/2 hours on december 30th blocked out for the first three quarters. should be fun.

this will likely be my most in-depth pre-game analysis, not that you're interested.