I just took this pic of the moon over DC tonight. The color and the size are amazing.I have a cold. So I’ve been inside for the past two days (with the exception of a midterm last night) drinking green tea, blowing my nose, taking vitamin C, and just about everything else you can imagine doing to make a cold go away in two days.

It seems to be working - I am feeling a little better tonight. I have old school No Doubt playing and all the candles around the house lit so there’s a nice ambience in here.

The ambience wasn’t this way earlier in the day when I finished reading a Salon.com article about some expert claiming a biological weapon may have been deployed in DC. It was when the anti-war protest was going on.

Unknown to the crowd, biological-weapons sensors, scattered for miles across Washington by the Department of Homeland Security, were quietly doing their work. The machines are designed to detect killer pathogens. Sometime between 10 a.m. on Sept. 24 and 10 a.m. on Sept. 25, six of those machines sucked in trace amounts of deadly bacteria called Francisella tularensis. The government fears it is one of six biological weapons most likely to be used against the United States.

It was an alarming reading. The biological-weapons detection system in Washington had never set off any alarms before. There are more than 150 sensors spread across 30 of the most populated cities in America. But this was the first time that six sensors in any one place had detected a toxin at the same time. The sensors are also located miles from one another, suggesting that the pathogen was airborne and probably not limited to a local environmental source.

Now keep in mind, that midterm I had last night was for my speech writing class. It was a crisis speech. Guess what the crisis was - a biological weapon is deployed in 4 major U.S. cities. You need to write a speech for the President.

I swear - living in this city is not good for my health!

P.S. this tidbit made me feel better:

So far, there are no signs of a tularemia outbreak in the U.S. But because it comes on like the flu, it is unclear if the government would even know if a few people from the Mall that day scattered across the United States had tularemia.

I swear…