Keep walking, I'm breathing

[sovay]

I did not get sheep-dipped in Benadryl, but I am full of antihistamines and eating a pumpernickel bagel with chopped liver and a coconut-milk milkshake.

I have not become allergic to my cats. My long-time allergies to dust mites have worsened to the point where the mitigation strategies in which I already engage are not cutting it, so I have some further suggestions, an alteration to my medications, and we go from here. I also seem to have become allergic to pigweed, which I had never even heard of until I looked it up, at which point it turned out to be amaranth which I have both eaten and admired as an ornamental plant. I am decorated with surgical marker and punctures. I had been scratch-tested before, but never intradermally injected.

The fog at dawn was an astonishing suffusion of gold, glinting like rainbows around the Prudential. Afterward I took a couple of pictures from MGH and the Longfellow Bridge. I believe my plans for the afternoon involve a nap.

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[sovay]

the highway a couple of blocks down from the main arterial streets we live between.

Okay, so what I'm hearing is, your local air quality sucks.

how terrible it is to give antibiotics to people without private insurance.

It's the collapse of civilization right there.

[kore]

Well, there's also the fumes from the parking lot below the living room, and the dense smoke from the Korean BBQ restaurant which replaced the awesome Brocklinds costume shop (you would have LOVED IT) which vents illegally on their roof right into our windows, which our building manager "solved" by putting up giant plain wooden boards that completely block off our view! Hiiiiiii fucken ho, yeah. And the neighbours who smoke on the back fire stairs that open about 3 feet away from our apartment door, and the neighbours who smoke on the balcony in front which is blown down the hall, and the neighbours below us who smoke in the bathroom at three in the morning and blow the smoke up the airshaft window, which opens directly into our bathroom. And this house is poorly insulated, so everything leaks. When the neighbours below blaze up at like six ayem I felt like I was getting contact fumes, lol. (This is advertised as a smoke-free building, and by Seattle law people aren't supposed to smoke within a certain number of feet from buildings and IIRC next to a residence not at all, and they're not supposed to smoke dope OUTSIDE on the FRONT BALCONIES, either. Yeah.)

tl;dr It is indeed very poor air quality. It used to be a lot better without the Korean BBQ joint, tho.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/after-106-years-brocklindrsquos-costume-shop-selling-its-final-tux/

https://www.capitolhillseattle.com/2013/01/hats-off-to-brocklinds-for-106-years-of-dressing-up-seattle/

I snagged an old brilliant steamer trunk from them during their final sale -- fifty bucks (it's pretty damaged), and it had tags inside from the 1920s. They had all kinds of stuff, it was an absolute treasure cave.

[ethelmay]

Oh, I think that must be the place I went with one of my high school teachers getting costumes for some event where teachers played famous people. We needed stuff for Ben Franklin, Niccolo Machiavelli, George Eliot, and I think there was a fourth I can't remember.

[sovay]

We needed stuff for Ben Franklin, Niccolo Machiavelli, George Eliot, and I think there was a fourth I can't remember.

That's wonderful. I gather you were able to find all of it.