Allergies with a side of perspective

So I've been sneezing a lot, and this past weekend my eyes watered quite a bit, I didn't think anything of it until today when the windows were open in my classroom n I spent the next two hours in allergy hell. I'm talking runny eyes, nose, congested, sinus pressure, the whole deal...and then some. Liana and I just trecked to the pharmacie closest to home and the lady gave me nasal spray and pills. The pills are only for night and seem pretty tiny so heres to hoping I can get them down without problems. Oh what I would do for some good old fashioned benedryl...

Also interesting from today;
I chatted with a friend who is from China, and she was telling me how she doesn't understand why everyone hates people from Tibet, and Chinese people in general, or rather is sort of racist against them. She brought up how one of her french friends said it was because of what happened there, and she didn't have a clue what he was talking about. I told her I knew very little about it, but that there have been many protests, and massacres there.(I was thinking Tienanmen square stuff..but upon further research I guess there has been even more recent problems in Tibet circa 2008) and she again, had no idea. Then she informed me that in China, everything similar to(and including) facebook, youtube, wikipedia, etc. is banned completely. She said the government sort of hides things from them and only let's them in on bad stuff when it's widespread and really bad. Her example was the SARS scare a few years back. She said a bunch of people in China, including someone famous died from it and the government denied it until they couldn't anymore. Now normally this wouldn't be blog worthy, because everyone is taught that China has communism, and that it's weird for us to comprehend. But I wanted to put it into perspective how truly lucky we are to be able to access internet, television, music, ...media in general, and everything else that we want pretty much at our own leisure. We have a great advantage that I think is taken for granted. It definitely made me think about how happy I am to have free reign over things that get overlooked so easily, I mean, how many times a day do you check facebook? read a news article online? research something random using wikipedia? or enjoy the latest song on youtube? If you ask me, I use all of these and more everyday, and frankly I'm glad I can. perspective.