yay, more msbelle for us!

Doctor's appointment at 12. I suspect he will tell me there's nothing to be done.

My brother went to Duke 86-89 and I went there the summer of 88.

Ah, gotcha. I was actually born in Durham while my dad got his PhD there, but my dad doesn't give a hoot about college (or professional) sports so we never had any allegiances growing up.

Doctor's appointment at 12. I suspect he will tell me there's nothing to be done.

Are you still sick, Dana? Can you keep anything down?

Update from yesterday's drama.

After spending most of the morning closeted with the HR person, we did manage to step things back from the ledge a bit. Still, a brutal conversation to have, and while K is going on a "Performance Improvement Plan" next week, I don't know that anything has really been resolved. She was shocked and hurt and a bit defensive, not entirely without reason. I just don't know how this all resolves.

Everything around here is so political anymore, and I'm trying to walk a very fine line of doing right by her, fixing the problem, preserving my own credibility and, hopefully, keeping a good friend. And, you know, doing my day job. Oof.

Sounds very tricky. Good luck, brenda!

BUT! I mentioned yesterday that I got name-checked at a dinner of Very Important bigwigs the other night. It occured to me later that one of those 20 or so people in the room was Roger Staubach. I am totally unreasonably gleeful about that. For no good reason - it's not like he'd likely remember or care or whatever. But still!

Slightly gross details:

I'm not throwing up any more, but I was up several times in the night with diarrhea.

Anyway, the doctor's guess is that it's some kind of infection, whether viral or bacterial, that I may have picked up while traveling. I have a few things I can do starting tomorrow if I have another difficult night.

I also think if I miss five days at work, I have to get medically approved to come back, so I'm a little stressed about that.

Oh Dana, such a bummer. The only thing I can recommend is lots of gatorade or a similar drink (the old water-sugar-salt combo) to keep yourself hydrated during all of this. And plain white rice might help slow down your digestive tract a bit.

Oh, poor Dana. {{hairpats}}

Hmm, cheery things: didja see Kass posted a Dr. Who vid?