Take Your Sick Child To Work Day

Brandon started running a fever last night. It was 101.1 just before he went to bed. Chris and I both groaned, because Chris had a full schedule today and I had already missed a couple of days of work with Matthew's black throat illness and my Partner (a.k.a my boss) is out of town, so I am the lone attorney representing our clients right now. Scary thought.

Anyway, Brandon woke up this morning with 100.3 wonderful degrees of temperature -- just enough that he can't go to school -- the cut off is 100. He tried really, really hard to contain his joy at being just sick enough to miss to school, but he could not dampen that I'm-gonna-miss-school twinkle in his eye, so I decided he could go to work with me. So I dosed him with bubble gum flavored Advil and he loaded up his backpack with his laptop, his Nintendo DS and all the various electrical cords that accompany those devices and we set off to work.

We arrived at my office and set up his electrical entertainment extravaganza on the corner of my desk and he started playing games. I started to work. After I had dictated about 4 mind-numbingly-boring letters into my handy-dandy Dictaphone, Brandon looked at me and said, "Is this what you do all day?"

My Dictaphone:










Not really. This is what my Dictaphone looks like:









Needless to say, Brandon was extremely underwhelmed at my career choice. Thoroughly unimpressed. He liked my last job (as an Assistant District Attorney) because I actually went to court every day, had a badge and sent kids to "juvie." It was a cool job.

Brandon's fever did not return after the Advil wore off, so I'm thinking that he can return to school tomorrow. Given the alternative of sitting in my office listening to me dictating letter after letter and going to school, he may choose the latter out of sheer boredom.