Man, and I thought I was creative when as a kid, if I didn't feel like going to school one day, I'd just make my mom take my temperature, then I'd hold the thermometer against a lightbulb briefly while she was out of the room. Voila! Fever! And I'd run around and frolic once she left for work.
It backfired, though, one day when I held it to the bulb too long and it read 106 degrees and I couldn't get it to come back down under the faucet or anything. I forget if she found me out or if I just announced it was normal and went to school without letting her see it.
As for this meeting, is your boss a dude? I mean geez, who does this? At my company last March, they even temporarily added ESPN and CBS to our cable lineup (which is usually just CSPAN and news channels)
