allergens

This weekend I'm on holiday. An allergen-free holiday, to be exact. The past 3 weekends I've been exposed to this horrific allergen that has totally stuffed up my head immediately on exposure. It's been like being hit in the face with a frying pan. Cast iron! It's really freaky how fast my sinuses closed up and my head felt like a balloon. And talk about pain!

The thing is, while that immediate response takes about a day to go away--my sinuses don't open up all the way for a while. So for the next 3 days, I'm fine as long as I'm vertical but as soon as I lay down the sinuses fill up again and along comes nasty sinus headaches--so only a short sleep period before I'm woken. It's not until Thursday that I start feeling good and then I get exposed a few days later.

The allergen is hiding in the hair of a certain person I know so avoiding it this weekend is forcing me to make a huge sacrifice. Maybe I could just ask her to shave her head...

Onto Television! I was very annoyed with Num3ers last night. I think they covered the art angle very poorly with all sorts of things either wrong or far too simplified--and judgemental, to boot. Did anyone else watch that? Men in Trees was interesting in the sex filled soap opera sense. They were all humping like rabbits. Maybe they're really trying to work the ratings on the show, or something. Overall I liked the episode and think the broad gender observations are on track though when they mosey over into individual behavior I think the writers lose it. Way too many silly situations occuring because of poor communication--not a shocker when done by men since we're deficient in that area, but the women in the show are guilty of it also. As a result the plotting comes off as too artificial since it relies on all this miscommunication to develop the "funny parts".

PS I might have had trouble going over to her house anyway. She lives just outside the area that was evacuated near Apex, NC, because of the fire at the hazardous waste company yesterday. In fact her son, who's an assistant manager, had to close up and leave his restaurant by order of the Fire Department due to the fumes from the fire. Several roads are closed so I'm not sure how I'd get there--maybe I'd have to go around by the airport and Crossroads...