possibly more bloody allergies

I might have become allergic to ibuprofen. Took some today, and within 5 minutes I had this feeling like there was a really sharp hair scratching the back of my throat, and sudden huge productions of mucus. Didn't actually feel wheezy, but had a major fit of coughing and throat-clearing, and I've felt pretty nasty for the rest of the day.

Argh, I hate the way my body is developing new allergies every couple of months. And the worst thing is not knowing whether today's episode was a reaction or completely unrelated. I'm pretty sure that I felt absolutely fine before I took the drug, apart from having backache, and also pretty sure that I've so far managed to miss the aspirin derivative allergy that most asthmatics have. But I've taken tons of ibuprofen over the past 3 days, and a lot of allergies are exposure-related. Maybe I'm not allergic to one or two doses, but am to several?

Damn it! I'm already in a queue for a latex allergy test. Will I have to join another queue for aspirin allergy? And am I going to turn out to be allergic to all salicylates, or just ibuprofen? With my delightful body, I really do not need to lose an entire class of painkillers :/

...and the other shoe drops

Am I the only person (who knows them) who didn't realise that gemoon and spikeylady were sisters? Actual biological siblings, that is, not honorary adopted ones.

Well, I might as well announce it, in case anyone else didn't know :)

some actual News

Tomorrow, I get to hand in my notice from my much-hated job. Hooray!

I am going to Kings' College London to do a PCGE, which is the postgraduate diploma you need to teach in this country. Training to teach chemistry to secondary school kids (11-18). I want to specialise in sixth form and adult returners, but I'll have to do a couple of years of generic secondary school first... and pass the evil scary medical, but we'll ignore that for the moment.

Got the official offer letter yesterday, along with a huge pile of forms and details of two entirely terrifying essays I am supposed to write before I turn up on 15th September. Oh joy, oh bliss. And it turns out that I am supposed to arrange for myself three days of Primary School Experience. Why the hell couldn't they have told me that at the interview? They gave the impression it would all be sorted for me! Idiots! So now I have precisely 8 days in which to sort something out. Great!

But I get to quit my job and do something that actually requires a brain! YES!!