Smoothies and doughnuts
There’s comfort eating in the office this afternoon – fruit smoothies for the body and doughnuts for the soul. Everyone is ill. One person sat at his keyboard two days ago and coughed and spluttered violently until he was instructed to go home – before he barfed up a lung and before everyone else got what he had.
He may have kept his lung but it looks like we all got what he had.
They say schools are unhealthy environments to be in, all those germs and viruses floating around the hallways and classrooms, but this office feels just as bad. The time is punctuated by various sniffs, coughs, moans and, well, ‘mucusy’ noises. At least we don’t have air conditioning in here. You can almost see the bugs surfing the recycled, convecting air, looks of glee on their faces as they find the next healthy person to take out.
So what to do tonight? Sensible answer – go home, wrap up warm, watch the telly and eat some soup. Silly answer – go to Covent Garden and belatedely celebrate my birthday in a smoky bar with lots of beer and a South African playing cover versions. Oops. Colour me silly.
Quite Random is the blog of Nathan Nelson, a human male who lives in the UK and is not entirely sure what he's going to do when he grows up but is interested in international development, photography, secularism, technology, music and movies and other things anyone of his age would be.
