Sarah is in Town, Allergies Suck
Sarah was in town this week on a business trip, and I was able to meet up with her yesterday evening. We walked around downtown for a little while and then she grabbed her iBook and I brought her out to see our apartment. I spent some time teaching her how to do some neat stuff with her Apple laptop, and then we met up with Todd for dinner at Rosario’s. Todd and Sarah are both from Covington, Louisiana and were in the same high school class in Mandeville, but did not know each other. We had a lot of fun at dinner and afterwards I dropped her off at her hotel so she could study for a test. Todd came over to watch Ocean’s 12 with Alana and me.
Tonight I was originally going to hang out with Brandon, but since Sarah was in town for such a short time I asked Brandon if we could reschedule to next week. Sarah called just before I was going to leave to go pick her up from downtown to say that she was going to be busy with work stuff and would probably not be able to hang out tonight. Bummer, but around this same time I began to have a problem…
You see, I have pretty bad allergies, and right now there is something wicked in the air here in southern Texas. I can barely walk outside without sneezing and having my nose run off. I’ve been taking Zyrtec for the past few days and that helps some, but my eyes still itch and well, I still have pretty bad allergies. Well, today during the peer review session my eyes were itching extremely bad and it got to the point where Will suggested that I go take some benedryl type medicine that he had at his desk. I went back to our desks, grabbed two pills from the bottle, returned to the room and took the pills. Bad, bad idea. Apparently I only should have taken one pill, which everyone told me later. By the time that Sarah called I was passing out (literally) in my desk chair. It was a very strange feeling, and I believe I blacked out at some point because I remember reality fading back in and realizing that Will and Dave were staring at me and laughing. They stare and laugh at me a lot, in fact, everyone at the office does, so that was not unusual. It was scary this time because I couldn’t remember the past couple minutes. I remembered putting my head down on my desk, and at some point noticing that they were watching me. Freaky.
So, by the time Sarah called to say that she would not be able to hang out this evening, I was pretty much in a state were I wouldn’t be able to hang out even if I wanted to. I eventually fell back to sleep at my desk and I decided this was ok because there was no way I would drive in that condition. I woke up about an hour later and felt that I was aware enough to drive, so I headed home a little before 7:00. I fell asleep as soon as I got home and just woke up about half an hour ago.
The moral of the story is this: if Will ever offers you some medicine that he calls “benedryl,” kindly refuse, that stuff is intense!
Tomorrow Dave and I are heading up to Austin to see The California Guitar Trio with Alana’s dad. I am pretty stoked about the concert, they are really amazing. Afterwards I will be riding with her dad back to Wimberley, TX to spend the weekend there. I am hoping to get a chance to see Hill Country Guitars.
Eleven Hundred Springs is quickly becoming one of my favorite bands.