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Candace W's Diary Entries Diary Navigation: Choose A Diary Entry -------------------- Latest Entry: 4/17/02 -------------------- 4/14/02 4/11/02 4/7/02 4/5/02 4/1/02 3/30/02 3/19/02 3/5/02 2/25/02 2/21/02 2/18/02 2/5/02 1/27/02 1/6/02 12/3/01 11/21/01 11/15/01 11/6/01 10/23/01 10/16/01 7/10/01 6/11/01 6/3/01 2/18/01 2/4/01 1/24/01 1/15/01 1/8/01 1/1/01 12/18/00 11/28/00 11/21/00 11/13/00 11/6/00 10/30/00 10/23/00 10/16/00 10/10/00 10/4/00 9/25/00 9/20/00 -------------------- Candace W's Introduction

November 13, 2000

Thursday was a fun day for the family. First, I woke up with the flu. Then between 4 and 7 a.m. I threw up about nine times. Al was feeling OK so he went to work, even though I was yacking my guts out. Which was OK, I told him to go. I called to tell him I was feeling a little better (I'd stopped throwing up), and he promised he'd take Alexandria so I could get some sleep. I was horribly exhausted. I spent the entire day lying on the floor, not doing anything. To make matters more enjoyable, I had AF cramps the entire day! Insult to injury, I guess. And the coup de grace was that by the time Al got home, he was horribly sick, too. He said he was sicker than I was, but he couldn't have been, he wasn't throwing up. Ha, ha. He went to lie down straight off. I could have killed him, but I was in no shape to drag him out of bed.

I missed class, a real bummer, since it appears we did some very new stuff. I wondered if I should go, but I didn't, since I didn't want to spread the wealth. In some cases, sharing isn't a good thing. There have been times I've been sicker, but I would just go to bed. This time, that wasn't an option.

I think I have reached a conclusion as to what I am going to do, but I've felt that way before. Is this the last time I'll make up my mind? Probably not. Sometimes for fun I tell people I am going to major in mass communications and forget this chemistry stuff. It sometimes even sounds reasonable!

Well, my fingers are frozen (our computer room isn't heated), and I still have work to do. It's some computer programming stuff. I hope I can get it to work!

Candace