Thank you so much to all of you who sent well-wishes to this flu sufferer. It meant a lot. I'm still suffering, but I did get into work today for a six-hour shift, 3 p.m. - 9 p.m. It was terrible! Not only did I feel like crap, but fate had worked hard to send me the worst customers in the universe, and I dealt with some real doozies tonight! And, of course, there was my own stupidity to deal with....

I was sitting at my desk, just sitting, as I was going through one of those "I'm too hot" stages of the flu, and I was sweating and feeling awful, and was just trying to get through it. Wondering how much time was left before I went home, I looked at the time, which is displayed digitally on the phone handset, I was horrified to see that it was only 5:06. Only six minutes had passed since the optician went home?! My god, time must be passing so slowly because I felt so sick. I sat at my desk, taking some ibuprofen, and then getting up and going back to the fridge for some cold water, and looked again at the clock - still 5:06. I am embarrassed to tell you how long it took before I realized that I was looking at the date, not the time. However, it was only 5:33, so time wasn't passing incredibly quickly, anyway!!