over a week and a half ago.

Many of the PGD-HM students are doctors, which is definitely comforting. So is having a public health PhD living next door. So I shouldn't have been too worried when I went from feeling great at 6PM to feeling dizzy at 6:15 to full-blown fever/nausea at 7. But it's still India, so I started writing a will in my head just in case (I was delirious, and i'd recently read about a whole bunch of semi-rare diseases that can kill if not treated quickly). After emptying some of my stomach contents up and out the top, though, I felt my fever go down a couple of degrees (to, it turned out, 103). At 9PM I knew I'd get through it. Which I did. Apparently, quite a few students here came down with similar ailments. When asked about whether they thought the food downstairs caused it, everyone responds "no, no - I think it's the change in the weather." Now, I'm not a doctor, but I've never heard of rainy weather making people puke and shit liquid. In fairness to them, I think the students meant that the latest front may have carried some virus with it. I'm not a doctor, and I really have no idea how all this works. But I'm buying hand sanitizer - my apologies to future generations. ps: my thanks to jess for taking good care of me.