31.10.04

The Hallowe'en chocolate bar conspiracy

Anyone else notice those miniature chocolate bars (for Hallowe'en) keep getting smaller every year? Unfortunately, the price goes the other way. Remember when an Oh! Henry was about one-third the size of a full bar, now it's one-quarter, if that. You can now shake the bar inside the wrapper (which has stayed the same size) with lots of space in between. A conspiracy!

This year, our house is providing a (limited) number of gift certificates from McDonald's, along with lollipops and those "two-bite" (forty licks?) chocolate bars.

Did I use the extra hour of sleep? Nope. I woke up at 7:28 (uh, 6:28), giving me seven hours of sleep which was comparable to previous nights (4 hours, 6 hours, and 4 hours). Midterm week drove my sleep schedule south, although not as terrible as in years past.