It's gone beyond Pepto-Bismal. Way beyond.

[rebecca_in_blue]

I called in sick to work today, for only the second time since I got this job. (Boss Man had better not give me any grief about it tomorrow.) I'm getting seriously worried about my stomach. Both last night and last Thursday night, I was up very late with terrible stomachaches. And they weren't of the dull, bloated, you-ate-too-much variety. They were more like the sharp, intense, you're-about-to-die kind. And noisy. My body was making sounds that freaked me out. Last night's episode was also accompanied vomiting, and both nights I fell alseep on the bathroom floor. This can't go on much longer. I can't be one of those people like Mom who gets stomachaches regularly and just lives with them.

I went all day yesterday without getting on the computer once! It might sound pathetic, but it's a big deal for me. I recently read in The Week about this poll conducted among teenagers and college students where the vast majority of them said that they would rather lose their significant other than live without the internet. The reasoning was that you could always find a new boyfriend or girlfriend, but life without the internet is unimaginable. For some reason, that really bothered me. I felt so disgusted with all the kids who'd taken that poll, but I'm just as addicted to the web as they are. (On that subject, one of my biggest worries has always been that the characteristics I hate in others are the ones I possess more than anybody. Maybe I do worry too much.) I've had a goal for a long time to go one day a week without the computer, but up until yesterday, I could never follow through on it. I will be so crazy-proud of myself if I can keep it going.