I sit in my supposedly-environmentally controlled computer lab – eyes streaming, nose & sinuses burning – and I wonder just WTF the Universe had in mind when it decided mucous was a fan-tastic idea. I am a step away from jabbing a turpentine-covered baby-bottle brush up my nose just to scratch my brain*. ’cause its itching, too.
Just so that we are all freaking aware of it — Austin sucks major allergen ass. There is something allergic happening every damn day. Mold, cedar, weed, grass, trees (other than cedar) and for all I know, alien fungal spores.
EVERYthing has a longer growth life here. Including Republicans.
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It feels like there are a billion ants, wearing fuzzy slippers & dusty feather boas doing the cha-cha in my sinus cavities.
The Process 
{winces in commiseration}
Not looking forward to that particular aspect of being back in Austin myself. Can you recommend a good allergist? I suspect I’ll be needing one. Unless he’s moved my allergist from before is on the south side of the city, and we’ll be somewhere northish.
I don’t have an allergist – no insurance. One day, when the gods are kind and I have insurance an allergist will appear. S/he will rip the sinal cavities from my head and trounce them mightily. With a stick.
And the crowds will rejoice. (yay)
Sneezing is the worst idea EVAR!
I just sneezed eighty-bazillion times in a row.
That’s so much more descriptive than *bopping along, bopping along, SUDDEN ICEPICK PRICK UP THE NOSE, ICEPICK ICEPICK ICEPICK, EYES STREAMING, not sneezing*, wash rinse repeat.
I am a step away from jabbing a turpentine-covered baby-bottle brush up my nose just to scratch my brain*. ’cause its itching, too.
I get those same notions when my throat is itchy; or I have a yeast infection.
I’m sure there is some deeply physiological reason that itching happens. I’m not sure what it is, though.
On another unrelated note:::: Poor Ankle! *comfortcomfort*
aww thanks; it’s still in a lot of pain – managing though because I have to make it to work tomorrow. Can’t afford not to.