I have been suffering from a horrible allergy attack and sinus complication for about 5 days. I've had allergy problems since I was a kid. I've never been tested to determine what exactly I am allergic to, but my guess is anything with scent. However after this weekend I am going to broaden my definition to include everything.

I am apparently allergic to everything.

My prescription medication usually works pretty well. However, I think I may have attracted some mutant strain or something.

When I was a kid one of my chores was to mow the yard. I would complain to my parents that I hated mowing the yard because I couldn't breathe afterwards, but they didn't seem much to care. My mother told me to take an allergy pill before I had to mow. Great advice. Let's dope the kid up and then let him operate heavy machinery.

For a couple years I worked outdoors in a greenhouse. (What can I say, I'm a masochist.) It wasn't too bad. My mom's pre-dope-up treatment seemed to work for most of the time. After a while though I think my body got used to the drugs and they no longer worked.

Before I moved to Arizona, everyone told me how great the dry climate would be for my sinuses. What they didn't know was that everyone else who moved here doesn't want to believe they live in a desert, so they brought all their stinking plants and grasses with them. (Damn Yankees!)

Pollution is another problem I face. No one warned me about that. On my first day to work after I moved here, I noticed this brownish haze in the sky. "Is that fog?", I asked myself. It was several months before I realized there were mountains on the other side of the smog.

While moaning and groaning and singing Hee Haw's "Gloom, Despair and Agony on Me" this weekend, I had a dream that I was living in a plastic bubble, free from all contaminants and odors, happy and content in my sterile environment. With my luck, I'd probably be allergic to the plastic.