Open thread while I'm in Michigan.

A quick story just for you: Last week, some of my classmates and I attended a Student Nurses Association meeting at which there was a guest speaker, a Dr. Bob England, who just so happens to be the state epidemiologist! That in itself was very cool. However that is not the fun part of this story... He was talking about how as a public health doctor his primary target is keeping healthy people from getting sick, prevention and all that, and how to build walls against disease, and he goes, "Name one of your favorite diseases," and of course, being college students, no one offers up anything, but under my breath, I say to myself, "bubonic plague." and he must have heard at least something come out of my mouth because he came over and asked me to repeat it. And I was like, "oh I was just joking," since I was sure he was looking for something more commonplace, "but I said the Black Death."

Everyone laughed and he was like, "Oh, well, bubonic plague, well let's work with that... How would you build a wall against bubonic plague?" and I said "quarantine" because I was caught off guard, and he said "yup, they did try that, but it didn't work, did it? Why?" And I said "Because it's transmitted by rat fleas." and then he said, "So how could we build a wall around rat fleas?" and I said "pest control," and he told me i'd done a very good job and moved on.

After class my friends were like "OMG Jovanie that was too funny, we can't believe you did that," and I told them, "well I was just joking and didn't at all think he would hear me." Then they said, "Yeah but then you actually knew your stuff about it, if that had been me I would have been totally lost and looked like an idiot." and I said, "Well that's because my friend wrote a song about it." :)

That actually took a lot longer to tell than I thought it would but hey, it was a fun moment. :)

PS- when are you and vixyish going to Walt Disney World? So jealous!