August 2008
Intermediate to advanced
192 pages
8h 8m
English

Photograph by Jen Siska
The Scenario: Imagine you’re a world-renowned epidemiologist (yeah, we know it’s a stretch, but just roll with it). You’re on your way back home to Northern California from a pandemics conference in Tokyo, with your 5-year-old child and significant other, cruising over the Pacific at 37,000 feet, and at least six more hours from home — or any airport, for that matter.
You’ve had your second meal and watched the movie, and you’re dozing peacefully in your business class seat when your child wakes you to say he really needs to use the bathroom. So you get up to escort him to the ...