in the meantime

A travel update:

I'm now at a hotel in Virginia. This is the same hotel I stayed at that apparently entered my name in a Vacation drawing that I "won". I never claimed my prize of a deluxe vacation of my choice due to the lack of evidence of its validity. So, instead of flying to Hawaii for a week, I'm driving down to Southern.

The drive hasn't been too bad. I started feeling sick about half way through Virginia. Let me tell you, it's pretty rotten to have GI issues while you're driving. Have you ever bought pepto bismol at a gas station? The cashier gave me a brown paper bag to put it in, like she was trying to protect me from embarrassment. But, I wasn't ashamed, I was feeling too ill to care whether people saw me buying the pink miracle worker. I would've kissed it and recite a love poem about it if I had the energy to. The drive is a killer without feeling sick. So, when my stomach contents reared it's ugly head, I was ready for battle.

I will say it fought valiantly for me, and I'm not feeling a little less awful. My hero.