Allergy Report

From the local weather report: “There was little relief from the Ragweed today. Levels remained very high again today. More than 200 grains were counted under the microscope. Fall Elm dropped slightly to below 100 grains. Molds were unchanged with high levels.”

I think almost everyone I know is suffering right now. And I am officially that old person in the grocery store nodding emphatically as someone says, “You know what it is, it’s the FALL ELM.”

And that’s bullshit. For many reasons. But also, fall elm sounds like it’s going to be something nice, but I’m miserable, and I wish I was dead.

Not really but srsly.

Could those units be right? 287g/m^3? 2/3 of a pound? That’s about 20% of the mass of a cubic meter of air alone.

We breathe about 11 cubic meters a day, so about 7 lbs of Ragweed a day? Assume a retention rate of 10% for getting stuck in one’s icky inside parts, and it’s no wonder I’m gaining weight.

Oh, what, I don’t live in Austin? I have no excuse? Oh, snap.