Today I was awakened at 4:00 AM by my body's need to sneeze. Why the air I had been breathing without problem for the previous 6 hours was suddenly deemed toxic by my body is anyone's guess, but it's pretty hard to go back to sleep while sneezing and a spouse isn't likely to appreciate you trying.
I don't generally have "hay fever"-type allergies, but this year for some reason my body has decided that we are under attack by pollen, and our response has been to sneeze out anything I might have breathed since the Reagan administration. Really, it baffles the imagination. I've lived around plants and trees my entire life, and have in general found them to be pretty harmless. Now, in my later 30s, my body has decided that breathing pollen might cause me to sprout flowers or leaves, or have some other horrible side effect. The germs that cause common colds? Hey that's no problem--they just let those right in. A little plant kingdom reproduction action? Grab the tissue! We're pulling out all the stops!
My body is obviously taking its defense advice from the U.S. border patrol....
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