ALLERGIES AHOY

I know it's only mid-February, but I am going to go ahead and declare that spring has arrived here in the fair city of San Francisco. The following two things give it away:

- The thin scrim of pollen that's on my car every morning when I go to work
- The concomitant spike in nose-running, eye-itching, and most maddeningly of all, roof-of-mouth-itching that I'm experiencing

So as of today I am jumping back on the loratidine train with Alavert.* I just thought everyone should know.

* Which I still switch back and forth on mentally pronouncing as "alavurt" or "alavair" depending on how much contact I've had with French people.