WNBP: You Can't Help But Disinfect...

Well, hello there, Wednesday! You certainly do have a way of making an impact when you put your mind to it. You can run the gamut...highs and lows! Nicely done! Since you are also the day when I get to do The Very Random Wednesday Night Bullet Post, then I suppose I should proceed immediately to the Very Random Rundown of my day:

*As of this afternoon, there were two confirmed cases of Swine Flu up here in the wilds of Maine. Two...

*The Commissioner of Education met with the superintendents of the schools and pretty much formally activated the state plan for containing any possible spread of the piggy virus.

*I am now going to write a word that I do not believe I have ever written on my very G-rated blog. I apologize in advance to those of you who object to this sort of thing, but I'm hoping you can see my point.

*Shit...

*It's not so much a fear of contracting the flu. I've been taking the normal precautions since this first started and there isn't really much else a person can do.

*But when you take the "dem" out of Pandemic...

*You get Panic.

*This should be fun. We get to try and find that delicate balance between not panicking the children and convincing them to take the whole hand-washing thing a bit more seriously.

*It should be even more fun when the parents get the letter that went home today. The CDC is pretty stern about this stuff. The procedures in place should anyone dare to present with flu-like symptoms are comprehensive.

*Very comprehensive.

*Comprehensive to the point of me being able to stay home and knit for 7 days should there even be a chance of infection anywhere in the school.

*I do not disagree with any of this. Kids are goopy by nature and many are inclined to pick their noses at will. I wholeheartedly support any and all measures in place to keep infection contained.

*I also have a somewhat compromised lung situation so I would prefer to not get this flu.

*It's the general sense of panic that is going to be unpleasant for a while.

*I won't swear at you again. But feel free to imagine me thinking it...

*I recently loaned the school secretary a couple of movies from my collection.

*I love her. She "gets" me.

*She understands almost all of the very obscure movie references I make during the day.

*She can talk about zombies with me. Intelligently.

*That is harder to do than you might think...

*She brought a movie in for me to watch this weekend.

Like I said...she "gets" me.

*I made a lasagna last weekend. My sister-in-law had some leftover sauce after my brother's birthday party and handed it off to me since I might starve without sauce in the house.

*You would weep if you tried this sauce. Seriously. It's that good.

*It made a great lasagna!

*Veggie lasagna.

*Did you know that Absurdly Gi-normous Kitties really, really like veggie lasagna?

*They love it passionately. Wholly and completely. To the point of obsession.

*Especially if they are denied access.

*Seriously. He'd sell each and every one of you on the internet for just one serving.

*Hey! Guess who was informed recently by her baby brother that her phone was less than functional?

*That'd be me.

*And guess what else? Phones are on sale right now to the point of stupid!

New phone. Shiny, with lots of buttons.

*I'll probably never figure most of them out. That's OK. I just like buttons.

*It has an internet browser, too.

*The home page featured a story on the Swine Flu pandemic.

*Insert your favorite curse word here*

Happy Wednesday, everyone! Please make sure to wash your hands and cough into your sleeve. I'll just be over here waiting out the panic, watching killer sheep tear up New Zealand and pushing shiny buttons until I figure out what they do.

SA