Hit by the Plague

When David and Mary returned Friday night from their day off in the country, little did they realize that they would return to a decimated community. 8 people had been hit by the "dreaded lurgy" that seemed to be no respecter of persons - all teams and nationalities were equally struck.

It gets even funnier. Dr. Watson was "DPR" for the evening, which means she carried a little cell phone that reception calls when anything out of the ordinary happens: she was the second line of defense. Unfortunately, because of this terrible plague she had to work reception alone the whole evening as well. How can you be in two places at once? What if, hypothetically speaking of course, she was checking the new warden and his wife into their rooms and another community member were to come running up shouting that something exploded in the resident's kitchen?

Dr. Watson actually deserves sainthood. She spent all morning making sure sick people had medicine and food, arranged for all the shifts to be covered for all the teams, AND managed to come visit me for a nice chat (she gave me wonderful mental and medicinal advice). She also dealt with not one, not two . . . but three calls in the middle of the night (1a, 1:40a, and 2:00a) and then worked an evening shift again the following day. Score one for England.

Here's a quick non sequitur for you - check out this really cool new movie that just came out in theaters! Its about William Wilberforce, who dedicated his whole life to abolishing slavery in Britain because He believed it was the work God called him to. Not only does the movie star the incredibly handsome Ioan Gruffod (of Horatio Hornblower fame) but also includes a campaign to end the modern day slavery of human trafficking (5 times more people are sold into slavery today than in Wilberforce's time).

Happy Chinese New Year . . .