--83 days.

--Either I'm watching too much "24," or I'm on to something...
So, I'm sitting there at work, trying to bust through as much stuff as possible (three issues trying to get out the door at the same time--wonderful planning), feeling somewhat woozy and just not feeling well, although not nearly bad enough to be in pain or really bad. Just off. I'm sure you've all felt like that at some time. Anyway, so I just chalked it up to the high stress I was under, until I overheard my cubicle neighbor talking on her phone about how her head and stomach were bothering her, but not hurting, and that she felt tired and her eyelids felt heavy. When she got off the phone, we compared symptoms...and they matched. Strange that we'd both be feeling the same way at the same time...even if there's this really, really vicious flu bug going around the office. Pretty brutal too. So we'll see...I took a couple Advils when I got home, just in case...hopefully that will stave anything off. But I definitely do feel tired still, even though I got a good night's sleep. I guess we'll see...

--I'll be going to my first b e e f plant next week, apparently. Cows, apparently, are the worst. So we'll see how it goes. I'm actually more concerned about my reaction to flying in the little corporate jet that they're going to take us in from the HQ to the plant than I am about my reaction to the cows. I avoid little jets like the plague when I have to fly anywhere. Flying's tough enough for me in a 737 or an MD-80, and I'm totally finally used to it. The bigger the plane, the better for me, though the biggest I've actually flown in is a 757. Not that I don't like flying, it's just the whole taking off and turbulence that gets me, when there is turbulence, of course. I like being able to see everything from a plane, so long as it's smooth. But we'll see, I guess. It'll be sweet to fly in a corporate jet though, if it's smooth. :)