Seomtimes those days where I stay home faking for me starts with a general feeling of blahs, so I'm never really that surprised if I do feel lousy by the end of the day.

Yeah, that's the thing. If I have something better to do, I won't take a sick day, generally. If I can't bear to go in, so I take the fake sick day? Odds are, I'm already blah and/or stressed out.

There's one gym teacher in particular that I fantasize about hunting down and beating up, now that I'm an adult in reasonable shape and he'd be a tiny weak old guy. It would totally be Karmic Justice.

Substitute "Algebra" for "gym" and count me in. Dude deserves to have the deadly ghost children from some Japanese horror movie pop out of the TV in his classroom and terrorize him as poetic justice.

I used to get bad stomachaches and other GI distress when I got stressed out in school. Though now stress tends to manifest as migraines, which I can usually head off if I realize what's happening fast enough.

I figure if it's below a 5, it doesn't rate remembering or writing about.

make sure you run that by the Dr. and make sure it is what she has in mind also. Don't want to be running off 2 different sets of assumptions.

ok. I am off. YAY!

make sure you run that by the Dr. and make sure it is what she has in mind also

Each headache entry requires 13 sub-bits of information. If she wants headaches below 5 recorded, she can follow me around her damned self. I'm on the second +5 of the day so far.

My mom's thing when you felt sick was to say to go to school and then if you still felt bad, to call her to come and get you. Which, given that the point of faking sick was usually to avoid having to get up and go to school in the first place, was incredibly frustrating.

OMG, Brenda and I have the same mom!! The only time mine would let me stay home was if I was actively vomiting or had a fever (she's a nurse, so faking illness was definitely not a good strategy in our household). I was a big fan of school, so I rarely felt like staying home, anyway. I got the flu in 8th grade, as well as sprained my ankle during gym class that year, but I don't remember too many other sick days.

Mom did give each of us a day off during senior year of high school for a mother/child let's-have-fun-together day.

Substitute "Algebra" for "gym" and count me in. Dude deserves to have the deadly ghost children from some Japanese horror movie pop out of the TV in his classroom and terrorize him as poetic justice.

Oh, if we can switch it up, I have a eighth grade honors Algebra II teacher I'll add to the list. If this were the Buffyverse, I'd be having dreams where I could tell her, "You know, I never got the chance to tell you how glad I was you were eaten by a snake."

Interrupting this sickie conversation to ask the hivemind:

What's the swankiest brand of vodka out there right now?

Belvedere?

Not sure why I think of that as extra-fancy. Must be the Klassy name?

It must be swanky. I've never even hear of it.