Code Puce

R– has a cold today and when I called to see how she felt she did not call off chore day. I was nonplussed when I arrived at her house and found her sniffling like a sort of Rhinovirus Mary. Eventually the emotion I settled on was annoyed with a side of slightly freaked out. Possibly because she gets mild colds she does not understand what a major thing it is to me to get sick. She even wanted to come over to my house tonight. Fortunately when she asked I looked like Megamind facing down an enraged superhero and said, “Ummmm” in a terrified way that she was able to correctly interpret as “please do not come” without me having to actually figure out how to say those words.

I hope I did not upset her, but gosh it would be nice to avoid having a cold during the penultimate week of my college semester.