I didn't panic!
Two things happened today:
1) The girl next to me was absent yesterday and looked pale and sickly today. Without thinking I borrowed a pen from her, and began to panic that I had exposed myself to stomach flu. Instead of freaking completely though I realized there are a million and a half reasons to miss class in college and everyone is constantly tired and pale and sickly. I calmly used the pen, used a wet ones thing and went straight to lunch without washing my hands.
2) I woke up this morning and first thing I heard was my upstairs neighbor getting sick. First I was frightened (since we share some common spaces) and I wanted to panic. But I took a deep breath and reminded myself last night was St. Patrick's day, she's probably hungover and it's probably not contagious, and went on with my day. Yay!
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