neil.m4 san> 熱々（あつあつ）なコメントをありがとうございます　

Jennifer san> だって四面楚歌じゃないよ！　this part could be –> 四面楚歌じゃないからね！ だって is used as “because”.

風邪（を）引いた私は、感染から体を守るため、仕事の同僚はわたし（と）はなせないようにして、四面楚歌でした。

Maybe the better way to say this is something like this:
私は風邪をひいたので、仕事の同僚は感染から体を守るため、私と話さないようにして、私は四面楚歌でした。

これはいえますか：

風邪が引いた私は、感染から体を守るため、仕事の同僚はわたしたおはなせないようにして、四面楚歌でした。

I am basically trying to say, I was an outcast at work because of my cold. No one wanted to catch it from me, so they stayed away from me.

教えてください！

あなたは別の友達がいるから、彼女たちがゆったことを気にしないでね。だって四面楚歌じゃないよ！

Is it strange?

Also, how do I make it so I can post a picture next to what I post?

For your information. when you see ha in a sentence being used as a particle it is actually read as wa, even though it is written as ha. So your sentence would be written in romaji like so:

watashi wa watashi no ashi wo “sprained” deshita. Kyou wa junbumanpan de wa arimasen.

Odaiji ni.

バロン san> GREAT work!すばらしいですね！引き伸ばし機(enlarger)の話は、残念でしたね　

Ben san> Ouch!足をねんざしたんですね。 　お大事に。 (ashi o nenza shita n desu ne. Odaiji ni.)

ジャービジ san> Nothing’s more painful than a boring Kanji lessons! (I experienced in high school, haha) Let’s stick to JapanesePod101 Yojijukugo

Bob1 san> yup, when the wind is literally at the bikers’ backs, 追い風is used. I think that the only times 順風is used in a real situations (not in Yojijukugo where it explains people’s condition or situation) is in sailing.

何時も通り勉強に成りました。

Listen to the most recent news podcast or visit this site’s forum to learn more about why your recent PDFs are showing up blank, or with little boxes. The bottom line is that you need to install Adobe Acrobat reader (ver. 9 on the Mac or ver. 8 on Linux), and then follow the directions to install whatever addition files are needed so that when you open the lesson notes in your browser, they will show up properly there, rather than having to explicitly download the file and then open it in Acrobat. The advantages of the new system is that you can search for terms in the new PDFs, whereas you could not before (in fact, with spotlight, you could search through all of your downloaded PDFs simultaneously for some keyword), and you can now copy and paste from the PDF. On the downside, you have to go to the trouble of installing the free Acrobat reader, and the new PDFs are said not to be readable on the iPhone and iPod touch. But perhaps JPod will still find some workaround for that final shortcoming–no comment from them yet.