I’ve been down and partially out with a nasty stomach flu. While this has not been a good time to be sick, I am glad that the severest symptoms didn’t show up until close to the end of a recent all-day training session I was leading. I have the weakest immune system of anyone living outside of a plastic bubble… every time I go to a function where I shake hands with people, I inevitably come down sick with some bacteria they’ve probably been carrying around since childhood.

Interesting link of the morning: Archnophobia, which has some interesting information about fear of spiders and research that breaks arachnophobes into two distinct camps of “monitor” and “blunter”– categories which fit many groups which I interact with daily…