Icky.

I think I may have slight food poisoning. Yesterday we did Subway for breakfast, and I had one of their egg sandwiches, which was extremely tasty. But last night I started losing my appetite, and then this morning I woke up with major intestinal duress. Now I just have major, major abdominal cramping. These are the signs of salmonella poisoning. Granted, I may be jumping the gun, but I don't like this, whatever it is. Boo.

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In other news, I went to WizardWorld Chicago this weekend. The Scientist and I went on Sunday morning and arrived soon after the doors opened. I got what I was really hoping for: new patches for my backpack. I have patches on it from places I've gone on vacation (Palm Springs, Salem, the House on the Rock, Storyland, the Everglades, WDW), as well as patches from totally random geeky things like Daria, Buffy, and Superman. Years ago I got a Tyrell Industries patch (except just the owl logo, no words) and lost it, so I was able to replace that one this weekend. I also got a She-Ra patch and a Eureka Sherrif patch. Now I have to sew all these, plus a giant Blue Sun patch, onto my bag. At this point I've run out of room, so I have no idea where I'll be putting these on the bag. I'd also like to get a BPRD patch, but I didn't see those at the vendor booths I went to.

I was also able to pick up two books about the art of Hellboy and Hellboy II for $5 a pop, so that was a good deal. Y'all know I love Hellboy. The Scientist picked up a bunch of TPBs also for $5 each; several were of Captain America for him, and then he grabbed a Ms. Marvel one for me. Earlier in the day I was bemoaning how female superheroes aren't getting their due. I argued that the movie studios would rather bank on Iron Man than Wonder Woman, which makes NO SENSE to me because Wonder Woman is infinitely more recognizable to people outside of the comics-reading world. Booo. So he nabbed me Ms. Marvel because he thinks I'd enjoy her character a lot. We also picked up a few of these Green Lantern tumblers for his brother's birthday next month, and a Settlers of Catan t-shirt for his other brother's birthday in two months.

Overall, it was a good time. WizardWorld is much different than I remember it. Instead of huge displays from Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, etc., there were booths for different games and stuff. No major comics publisher had a booth set up. Not even booths from any movie or TV studios, save for Lionsgate (which was pushing Saw 3D and Centurion, which they screened the night before). We met up with fishdoctorpost, and when I asked her about this change in the con, she said that most of the big comic stuff was shifting over to C2E2 instead of WizardWorld. So I have a feeling we'll be attending that one in March.

There were a lot of guests there to sign autographs, but we didn't stop to get/pay for any. We saw Anders, Tighe, and the Chief from BSG, Adam West and Julie Newmar from Batman (and the original Batmobile), and both Michael Biehn and Linda Hamilton from Terminator. Linda Hamilton still looks amazing, I must say. We also passed by Angie Everhart, who was wearing leather pants, and James Tolkan (Mr. Strikland from Back to the Future). James Marsters had a huge line but I didn't see him. fishdoctorpost went to his panel the day before and said he was really down to earth and not at all douchebaggy, which was what I expected. Huh. And I completely forgot Nick Brendon was there, too. I think my Buffy fan card is being revoked as I type.

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Oooooh, my tummy hurts. :(

Ugh.

I feel like someone is punching their fist into my abdomen, grabbing all of my guts, and twisted as hard as possible. I'm going home at 2. (I had a random 3 hours of time from the day the Scientist went to the hospital, and I'm taking them, darnit!) I told my boss what was going on, and he said that if the abdominal cramping started today, it will most likely feel worse tomorrow. Awesome! I can't wait!