Here's the thing. I grew up without allergies. On a recent trip to New Orleans, I was without allergies. Back in SC on vacation, I was without allergies. While, yes, I may have a cold, the symptoms I'm experiencing seem much more like allergies.
WHAT THE HELL AM I ALLERGIC TO IN THE MIDWEST?
Could it be...failure?
Oh, wait, that's boring, I can come up with much more entertaining things for me to be allergic to in the Midwest:
- Blue-collar-esque clock-punching
- A tendency for the visceral over the verbal (sounds like a complicated math equation, yes?)
- Blocky, featureless office buildings (Damn you and your functionality, Mies van der Rohe!!)
- Flatness - and I mean figuratively as well as literally. Yeah, yeah, the grid means you planned your city, it's easy to navigate, and you have a place to hide your trash (because there are alleys). But personally, I prefer complexity to boredom.
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Hi Lady. I went on the longest vacation I've ever taken. very weird and of course I didn't want to come back to "reality" because I was gone long enough to really enjoy not working.
Anyway, I have developed annoying allergies out here in the midwest. People tell me we develop them with age, but I just like to blame the midwest. I see no problem with that.
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