The Xanga team has been blanketed by illness.  We’re not sure where it started, (and we’ve seen signs that its actually multiple illnesses) but it has been rampaging through the office.  Here’s the break down of the office:

Sickies (ordered by who snuffled first):

1. Bharat the only one with the sense to stay home when he got sick
2. Bob potentially our ebola monkey
3. Joe me!  Sore throat and Coughing
4. Dave  possibly has strep throat.  Gross!
5. Patrick minor sniffles
6. Ben minor sniffles (probably contracted from Patrick)
7. Joel minor sniffles (probably contracted from Ben)
8. Eugenia struck down today!  Sore throat and Headache.
9. Stephen struck down today!

Healthies (and why I think they’re still healthy)

1. Chris the son of a doctor – germs fear retribution
2. Natalia too busy answering e-mails to be exposed to germs
3. Ayca pure luck.  My guess is that she’s the next one to go.
4. Janet germaphobe – wipes down everything with Clorox wipes
5. Mikey also a germaphobe – compulsively washes his hands
6. Dan has a wall constructed of monitors to protect him
7. Jon spends all his time working in the back room
8. John has already been sick once this year
9. Marc not human, and thus not subject to human diseases
10. Justin has been wearing a particle mask since last Friday
11. Amy works in a private office – so she’s avoided the contaminated air
12. Mary works remotely – so she’s far from us sickies
13. Adam wears a goatie, which acts as a particle filtration system

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8 Theraflu, 5 Cold-Eeze, 4 grapefruit juices, 3 honey teas, 2 oranges, and one hot wonton soup later, and I’m still sick, and coughing like I’m about to loose a lung.  Anyone have any great home remedies for the flu?

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Taken from my personal IM’s:

Lela: how do you feel about xxxxx?
Lela: i was just doing some journal searches
Lela: for prospective schools
Lela: and the majority of them seem to be international
Joe: oh?
Joe: so xxxxx specifically? or internationally in general
Joe: makes sense to go somewhere you actually speak the language
Lela: humph
Lela: you’re always limiting me!
Joe: :p
Joe: I’ll do a lot of things for you, but I draw the line at Swahili
…
…
Lela: it could be romantic
Lela: the lions roaring in the distance
Joe: haha

Seriously, how does one win in an argument against her?  ^_^  (The woman, not the random baby she’s commandeered) 

How far would you go (either in principle or in reality) for your loved ones?

[EDIT:] Haha oops.  It seems people have taken the conversation a bit too literaly.  I meant, is there anything you wouldn’t do for a loved one?  What if it challenged your morals, or principles?  Anywho, here is our conversation after reading some of your comments.

Lela: you see what responses you get from xanga?
Lela: it shows that you are not really into our relationship
Lela: or committed to our love
Joe: any other language sure
Joe: but not Swahili
Joe: it is against my principles
Lela:  ::sob::
Lela:  what’s wrong with swahili?
Joe: i know this all fits into your Lion king fantasy
Joe: but you’re not Nalla
Joe: and I’m not Simba
Lela:  and [Joe's big brother] could be Scar!
Lela:  ooooooohh!

Sigh… I really do love her  ^_^ 

At Xanga we have a rule that at least one other person must review your feature or product before it is released on the unsuspecting Xanga public.  Here is one such feature review that occured at Xanga.  In addition to paraphrasing slightly, since this is from memory, I’ll be using my co-worker’s fool-proof method of generating entirely fictional randomized names to protect the innocent, we’ll call the people involved … chris … christopher choi and … jo … joseph lee.  Sweet.  All  people protected  ^_^. 

i think chris likes working with me too.

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“Huh.  That didn’t go quite how I planned it…”

^_^

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