LRV:
That sucks. As if you need any more stress right now (NOT!).

Okay, you have no control over whether people talk about you or not. But you do have control over what they can monitor from now onward. If you think that she has enough information and is witchy enough to spread rumors about you, and if you think your boss might pay attention, then you have got to make sure you give them NO reason to believe her. Clean off your computer (favorites, history, URL history) if you use it for anything personal, including accessing this forum. DO NOT access this forum while you are at work, no matter how tempting it is (aint THIS the pot calling the kettle black! Ha! I should follow my own advice!). Be a stellar employee at all times, and stay unemotional, no matter what. If anyone confronts you with the rumor, say "I have no idea what she is talking about" and refuse to engage in any further discussion of it. The rumor has nothing to do with you and work, so they can't fire you for knowing your personal secrets. If your boss respects your work (which I'm assuming he does, otherwise you wouldn't be reporting directly to him), then he's not going to lose a good employee to a rumor about your personal life. I don't know if you live in a "for cause" state or not, but it's pretty hard to fire someone without cause regardless. So stay clean, be an angel, and the rumor spreader will just make herself look bad.

DO NOT REACT TO HER - JUST IGNORE HER.

That's what I'd try to do, anyway.

Control the physically ill - you can't control what's happening. You can only control your reaction.

Thinking of you,
Your friend,
Veteran LMo

We are ALL going to be a-ok!