My head is swimming pretty bad right now, and I can barely breathe, but I’ll try to type this with a minimum of typos. So far this morning I’ve been at the office for about forty minutes and I’ve taken the following drugs/vitamins: Viactiv, Aleve, One-A-Day, Benadryl, and Tylenol (x2). The reason for this drug overdose? Well, the first three I take everyday since they’re vitamins and the Aleve’s for the arthritis. The Benadryl and Tylenol are as a result of my allergies to perfume. One of the women up here wears so much perfume that I can’t even be near her office because it’s overwhelming, and I’m not the only one who thinks so. It’s a common joke up here about her perfume among those without allergies. But she came into my office earlier asking some questions about music classes and was here for about ten minutes, more than enough time for my eyes to water, my nose to stop up and my throat to constrict. By the time she left I was breathing shallowly and coughing. I had to leave the room after opening the windows. I was coughing so hard I thought I’d throw up, and my eyes were watering so bad I couldn’t see for a while. It has been about twenty minutes and I can still smell her perfume in here despite the open window. My head hurts so much I can’t really concentrate, and my eyes still itch as does my throat. I hate being allergic to perfume. I hate it all the more because perfume unlike peanuts or oats or sunlight, I really can’t avoid it ’cause it’s airborne like pollen or farts. Farts may stink whereas perfume occasionally smells nice, but at least I’m not allergic to farts. Goddamn my head hurts. I really need to work on the thesis but it’s taking me forever just to post this let alone form complete thoughts. @#$%^&*!? perfume. Oh how I loathe it.