Life as a Physicist

I wonder if any health studies have been done of long-term children day-care workers? They must be exposed to every single cold virus on the earth. As far as I can tell they almost never get sick. Do they live longer than the rest of us? Are they never felled by pneumonia? Or do they just never get a cold again in their lives?

Our kid is sick with a nasty cold. It is one of those colds that wakes her up in the middle of the night coughing. I wonder if Julia understands what is going on? Paula, the lucky one, is off in DC on a NSF grant proposal panel and is missing this. Of course, not so lucky, Paula actually caught the cold. So far I’ve missed it, but it has to be coming: I’m traveling to Chicago and Geneva later this week.