cacophony is the word of the day...

...which i totally had to look up to make sure it meant what i thought it meant (it does, but i had spelled it wrong). cacophony means "harsh discordance of sound" as well as "frequent use of discords of a harshness and relationship difficult to understand" - both are appropriate to describe the hacking coughs resounding off our walls. and who is the crazed woman chasing children with tissues in hand to prevent the unthinkable (someone wiping their nose with their hand and then getting it somewhere near their eyes)? oh, yeah, that's me. do you wish you were here? not so much.