My
world has been invaded by the “dark side.”
Or perhaps the green side is more accurate.
I
hadn’t anticipated the attack. The
invasion was thorough and violent. Rebel
forces were miles away. Recovery was
slow, barely holding symptoms at bay.
Death
Star or Pollen. They’re both
brutal.
Just as
the Jedi generally had some idea that the Empire was due to attack, most
springs I know hay fever is around the corner.
Not this year. I mistakenly
thought that a move to Texas meant I could forego allergy season. I thought the dry weather and lack of many deciduous
trees would mean a reprieve. I was
wrong.
Maybe I
listened to our son John a bit too much.
He often teases us about moving to the desert and not remembering our
names. “…because in the desert you can’t
remember your name, cause there ain’t no one for to give you no pain,” he sings,
smirking. The sandy soil, the palm
trees, the mesquite and cacti had him fooled.
They fooled me too.
I tried
to convince John that San Antonio was a semi-arid plain and it is…sort of. It’s on the cusp of semi-arid and subtropical,
which must afford enough mix of rain and sunshine to lure pollen-producing
plants.
I tried
to ignore pollen’s arrival – the pale green haze on cars and patio furniture,
on carts at the grocery store and the gas grill. When my sinuses were screaming in pain, I
tried to convince myself it was a cold. I would recover any day…any day….
Denial
has given way to acceptance. I’m religiously taking Zyrtec and buying Kleenex in bulk.
I was
ready for change, whatever change Texas could throw at me. A reprieve from allergies is one change I
would have welcomed gladly and one I’ll have to live without.
Obviously, I relate to this post on multiple levels and love it. I would like to point out however that if rebel forces were attacking the death star from only mere miles away, they would be within attack range. Yavin IV and the Death Star had to have been around a million miles apart. The distance from the Death Star to Yavin Prime was at least the distance from the Earth to the moon, considering that Yavin prime is an enormous gas giant. That would be at least a quarter of a million miles, but likely double or triple that depending upon the size of Yavin Prime. Then you compound that when Yavin IV is atleast double that distance on the opposite side of Yavin Prime. In A New Hope, it took the rebel fleet a short cut scene of perhaps two minutes to cross this expanse (because a million miles in two minutes is less than lightspeed, they didn't have to jump to hyperspace). Therefore, if the rebel forces were only miles away and not hundreds, thousands, millions, or lightyears away, it would've been fairly easy for them to come and attack the thermal exhaust port about the size of a womp rat. Which brings up another point, why would a photon torpedo have been forcibly sucked down the exhaust port if it was exhausting outward and spewing overheated debris from the core, why would there be a force pulling in the photon torpedo? Hmmmmm . . . .
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