Body Declares War on Minneapolis Woman

Sunuvabitch, I knew this was going to happen. I start my new career tomorrow, and here I am all laid up with the Black Lung. Or Dengue Fever. Or something. Of course I knew that as soon as I bragged about being all healthy on the trip something like this would happen.... Urrggghhhhh. And I still haven't kicked my jet lag (13 hours). After sleeping until 2 p.m. the past two days I forced myself to get out of bed at 9 this morning. Then I dragged my feverish body over to Byerly's to pick up enough fixins to fill my 20-quart stock pot with chicken noodle soup. Wish me luck today. I am going to be slurping soup and guzzling Dayquil and hopefully will successfully roll out of bed fresh-faced tomorrow at 7 a.m....