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the only adjective named team in the national hockey league sidestepped elimination for the fifth time last night.
i will not jinx my boys on ice by saying anything about the game tonight.
the stakes are too high.
playoff hockey has been gone from hockey state for too long.
when the north stars went to dallas (dallas! hockey in texas!) i was upset, but not angry.
when they started winning cups, i was angry.
but now it's the wild still playing, and the stars were sent home by the ducks--a team named after a disney movie.

i do not blame the trees for making pollen and trying to continue that wonderful dance that is life.
i do not blame my sinuses for clogging up and making my head weigh another seventy pounds.
i do not blame my eyes for itching to the point that i wanted to scratch them out of my head.
what i do blame is C₅H₉N₃--commonly known as histamine.

all kinds of stuff can cause allergic reactions. pollen, food, insect bites, the play of the mets, all of these can cause things to happen in our body.
so when the body gets some stuff in it that it doesn't like, it wants to kick it out faster than you booted that $2 crack ho that tried to crash your daughter's high school graduation party.
your body lets it's bouncers of the cell world out in mass. antibodies. going to kick some ass. but sometimes they get a bit overzealous and send about 37,000,000 antibodies to take out maybe 2 or 3 allergens that are just loitering in front of your bodies 7-11 slipping on slurpies even though the clerk has repeatedly told them "no loitering! i call cops! you go now! sign say no loitering!"
so if you got all these bad asses kicking the crap out of the allergens, there are some side effects being produced. not drowsiness or decreased judgement or perceived better social skills--that's alcohol. no, when our body is throwin' down on allergens, we make histamine.
and histamine sucks.