Last night after tafe I gave a lift to one of the girls in my class, as I often do, since she lives on my way home. She must have a rather weak immune system, because she’s often sick, and she came to class last night looking absolutely terrible. Still, I gave her a lift anyway because who wants to wait around for a bus when you’re feeling crap?

I didn’t know what was making her sick, until she was complaining on the way home about the virus she has that just keeps hanging around, and how her nose was all blocked up. I was listening to all that, thinking ‘greeeeat’. Just breathe out the window, ok?

When I woke up this morning my throat was feeling a little dodgy. I’ve broken out the echinacea in the hopes of knocking whatever it is on the head fairly quickly - I do not need to get sick now, 2 weeks away from my holiday!

That’s the second time I’ve caught something from someone at tafe - the other time was from a woman who came in because we had an assessment that day, and then proceeded to breathe her germs all over me for the duration of her stay in class. Grrr… if people are sick, why can’t they just stay home? I think it’s really inconsiderate to go out if you know you’re not well, and particularly if you can pass whatever you have onto someone else. You don’t get any medals for going to work or school or whatever if you’re sick - you just piss the people around you off because you give them whatever you’ve got.

A guy at work is like that - he’ll brag about how sick he is, and how he still hasn’t had to take a day off work, but around him everyone is dropping like flies because they’re catching his illness. Stay home if you’re not well!