Amazon knows me too well.  First under my "Recommended Reading" was this book:

"A psychological term, "magical thinking" describes the belief that one exerts more influence over events than one actually does."

Also in Signs, a PS in one of my kids reading journals was this"

"PS, When can I name your unborn baby????" 

And,at lunch I overheard the school nurse talking to one of our pregnant staffers about "getting tested" and asking "who else is pregnant or trying, do you know? because they should get tested, too."  Melanie, one of two colleagues that know was sitting right across from me, non-verbally and subtlely as possible communicating that I needed to talk to the nurse.

Luckily, I am stuffed up, so I finished my meal and left under the premise of needing to blow my nose.  I was able to corner the nurse very quickly and get the scoop. In doing so, I’ve now come out to a gossipy type (in her defense, though, she doesn’t tend to talk about other’s medical issues, just everything else about them) and remind her that this was NOT public knowledge.  The scoop is that there is an outbreak of Fifth Disease at school, that can cause problems in pregnancy.  Basically, she told me to wait until I knew if I was or not, and if I was, I’d have to have a blood draw to test for immunity. No big deal, really.  And I was discreet and quick enough that no one saw the conversation. WHew.

In other news, the trunk of my car is filled with 200 dollars worth of sugar for the dance my NJHS kids are sponsoring tomorrow. MMmmmm.  I hope I feel better by then!