wednesday may 13

today i went to my first wednesday class of the semester, with an instructor i hadn't met before. while she was taking attendance at the beginning of class, it came up that one student was away, sick. this led her into a tangent about not showing up to class if you were sick -- she'd rather we stayed home and away from anyone else if we were potentially contagious, rather than feeling obliged to drag ourselves to class. still feeling rather poor, and having felt obliged to drag myself to class, i briefly debated getting up and walking out at this point. i managed, however, to keep my sniffles and coughs to a minimum for the next two hours, pretending i was not, in fact, sick.