exposure

Around this time last year H1N1 was a big thing. Everyone was freaking out about it. Last year I was in college, among many adults. Now I'm around little children all the time. Now I don't know the facts; don't know if more bacteria live among adults or children. But I know that after a while of being in the same environment and exposed to the same bacteria you become immune to those bacteria, and your body doesn't get sick easily.
Now that school has just started I have been exposed to many different little germs that float around the school. I'm not immune, and being tired or fatigued my body has to work harder on lower levels of energy.

Germs love week bodies! Germs attack and take over the weak and tired body. So here I am, with a box of Kleenex at my side, a water bottle that has been emptied many times today, and several tylenol-cold to help me come through this day. I hope that by having this fierce cold now, on the weekend, I won't have it for very long next week and hopefully become immune to all those germs soon, so that the exposure to the wide variety of bugs won't affect me.
For now, I'll keep sneezing and sniffling, singing songs to the pounding in my head, and being thankful for the fact that I feel like this at home. :)