Like herpes or chronic radiation sickness, swine flu is one of those things that doesn't seem to want to go quietly into that good night. Despite all the extreme precautions taken to keep people around here from contracting the disease, it looks like Naha Nikkei, the school where I teach in the morning, is going to be shut down for a couple of days due to a bunch of people coming down with it in recent days. Hope they all get well soon...just not too soon. I kind of like enjoying my mornings.