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Was BloodhoundBlog Unchained so much work that it made you sick?

We told you for months that we were going to give you a lot of work at BloodhoundBlog Unchained. We knew we weren’t going to teach much, if anything, to Andy Kaufman or Brad Coy, but Joseph Runtz is trying to figure out how to eat an elephant. (One bite at a time, Joe.) Mark Eckenrode is erecting a secondary market in Unchained study aids, which I think is wicked cool.

But: Apparently, not everything was a raging success. Sue Griman had to leave during Glenn Kelman’s keynote address. By late evening, she was dreadfully ill, and she still isn’t back to full capacity. Laurie Manny reports that became ill when she got home in the wee hours of Wednesday morning, and she says the same illness may have affected Marlene Bridges and Lynda Eisenman at about the same time. Geno Petro’s post from yesterday suggests that he may have been sick and not just exhausted by the time he got back to Chicago on Wednesday night. [Geno confirms that he was ill, blaming a steak he ate Tuesday night.]

Sue thought she had food poisoning, and Laurie said the same thing, but the spaced-out timing would tend to suggest a virus or a bacterial infection, a contagion of some sort. Either way, while we certainly meant to send you home queasy with the workload, we didn’t intend to achieve actual nausea.

Even so, if you had a problem, let me know. If the problem really was food poisoning, we can let the caterers know about it. And if not, at least we’ll know more than we did before.

In any case, if BloodhoundBlog Unchained made you sick in any way at all — either physically ill or just dyspeptic at all that homework — you have our deepest apologies.

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