I am surrounded

I used to be a normal person…. Well, relatively normal until yesterday. Yesterday I broke. I’ve been working on a big project at work and was doing a lot of really detailed work in a database. It’s tedious work – no one would disagree with me, and it’s almost over. This is the last hurdle but there’s a lot to get through.

Simultaneous to this event, everyone in the office in my immediate vicinity is sick. Not like, I might sneeze once a day sick – like deep, gross, wet, coughing and sneezing and horking sick. It’s symphonic in proportion and scale – a chorus of sickly sounds. I think one of them has TB. Some are so sick they should be at home or perhaps a hospital. They are not. They are at work.

Usually I’m not bothered by this kind of thing. I don’t even hear it most of the time I just tune it out. But there’s so much of it - it’s crushing. I’m strongly considering buying a case of cough drops and leaving them for the office before running off to a germ decontamination facility.

I have become Howard Hughes.

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