Falling like dominoes

[eee1313]

It seems that every day I hear of more and more people getting H1N1. Now it's the son of the guy who sits across from me at work. I swear to God, if Joe passed H1N1 from his son to me and I spend my entire vacation with the flu, I will kill him. And I wasn't even concerned about H1N1 until I realized that I'll be stuck on a boat with a bunch of people from all over the country (and the world, possibly), and I have no guarantees that they're not carriers for H1N1, and those ships can be breeding grounds for illnesses. Remember the Norwalk virus outbreak? OMG, I'm going to be paranoid about eating at the buffet. (As if I'm not already paranoid about buffets as it is. You never know what people are doing to the food! I mean, it's one thing to worry about what's being done to your food in the kitchen, but at a buffet ANYONE can touch your food. It's creepy.) Anyway, I will be buying lots of hand sanitizer tonight at Target. That, and Dramamine, which I forgot to buy when I was at Target last night. D'oh.

In other news, I packed for the Scientist last night while he was at work. Hopefully I didn't forget anything he needs. Tonight's just about packing essentials, and then we're ready to go. Plus, I already got our boarding passes for the flight, and we're in the A group. Woo-hoo! For any of you who've flown Southwest, you know how awesome that is. The A group made my morning.

I am being a rebel and drinking coffee at my desk.

There are still compliments coming in about my new hair. Rock on.

Comments

[bunglegirl.livejournal.com]

I once confirmed 23 hours before and still got in B group, congrats!

Something I read said that handwashing does better to keep sickness away than almost anything else (vitamin c etc.). I would refuse to shake people's hands. If you just shrug and say "I don't want to get sick" I think most people would understand. Food, well... pick from the back?

Have fun!

[eee1313.livejournal.com]

I once confirmed 23 hours before and still got in B group

Yeah, if you're not logged in exactly on time, you're screwed. Especially with Southwest's new system where the first 20 seats in the A group are reserved for business class passengers, as well as those who pay the extra $10 for preferred seating. So it's even harder than before to get A group seats. What's weird is that the last time I flew out of Midway on Southwest, instead of a boarding pass I got a "security document" that would get me through the checkpoint, but I had to get my boarding pass at the airport once I arrived. I have no idea what that was about, but it was a PITA.

Something I read said that handwashing does better to keep sickness away than almost anything else

That's totally true. deeablo's mom is a nurse, and she's like "Just soap and water will do fine!" It's actually worse to use those antibacterial hand sanitizers on kids, because then the kids don't get used to germs and have a chance to build up a natural immunity. So kids who live under a cloud of antibacterial crap are tending to have more and more allergies as they grow older. Exposure to germs can be a GOOD thing, you know? I'm still buying hand sanitizer, though. Better safe than sorry. ;)

Food, well... pick from the back?

I always do, because I'm crazy like that.