YATI (Yet Another Throat Infection )
Sickly & 
Bored
One other thing that I have been battling which has also required my absence away from ranbtox is throat infections. This would be my fifth one in the past four months. I am extremely frustrated and exhausted from being sick so much but what else can I do? I work in a school with germy little children. I think that this is one of the biggest cons about working in the field. I don’t even care about getting bitten or scratched by these kids but getting sick just infuriates me mainly because parents tend to send these kids in like this and keep them at school regardless. They don’t realize how easily it passes around to everyone and how we just bounce it back and forth until the chain breaks.
So now I’m sucking down salty rotten kumquat drinks several times a day. Yum! Luckily, my mother tends to be real motherly now that I’m 29 and made my father make 4 small containers of special congee (watered down rice really) for me. My poor 70-some-odd year old father has to drive 20 minutes to bring me the congee and he didn’t look too happy doing it. (But that’s ok, I wasn’t too happy finding one of his hairs in my special congee either!)
So this Otto-absent weekend has been torturous for me. I had so many plans to go out with pals and instead I ended up getting really sick. I spent all my time ordering crappy movies on cable, trying to find every person I’ve ever known on Myspace (does adding your 22 year old dorky cousin on your Myspace friends list add to my coolness factor?), and spending hours eating just one bowl of soup because my throat burns everytime I swallow.
It’s just YATI….