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Mornin’, Washington. So according to my roommate’s iPhone allergy application thing, yesterday was the worst day yet to be a person living with active mucus membranes in the District of Columbia. This writer doesn’t need any sort of Mac product to tell you that cherry blossom season comes at a price for some of us.

Allergies are new to me — I haven’t registered this sort of suffering from so many senses since I watched the season premiere of The Real World: D.C.. The Washington Post gives some smart advice for the allergen adverse in a spring advice roundup: “People with allergies can find relief by staying indoors and switching on the air conditioner rather than opening windows.” So change out your air filter and run the fan to help filter out the pollen.

Other advice I’ve received runs from the pedestrian to the esoteric. Try out [latest fashionable OTC anti-allergy drug] or better yet [its generic equivalent]. Some very promising advice: Eat a spoon of local honey every day. That is definitely the most delicious advice yet. Washingtonian lists an allergist among its top doctors. Of course, there is the totally gross solution of nasal irrigation and — I’d put this in the when-all-else-fails-category — the FDA-approved, prescription-only lung flute. Readers, tell me please that you have a solution that doesn’t involve asking a doctor for an ocarina.

Mayor Booed in Southeast: Mayor Adrian Fenty was booed upon arriving to the scene of Tuesday night’s deadly mass shooting more than 24 hours after the fact. Not that anyone had any way of knowing at the time of the shooting, because Mayor Fenty doesn’t tell people these things, but he was in Jamaica. A cousin to one of the four people killed after nine people were shot put it this way: “Any public official in control of a city should be Johnny-on-the-spot for something this serious to go down.”

Reflecting Pool To Close for Renovation: The Examiner reports that the National Capital Planning Commission approved a plan to close the Reflecting Pool on the National Mall for 2 years for renovations. The pool is apparently leaking water, and heavy tread by tourists have worn away the pathways around it. But when it returns, it will be more reflective than ever.

Briefly Noted: Perfect weather for tourists to gawk at our cherry blossoms . . . Woodbridge, VA, teen attempts to poison dad’s punch . . . Census officials experience Census Day surge . . . Many people in fact allergic to Real World: D.C..

This Day in DCist: In 2009, DCist teamed up with the Phillips Collection and Ward 7 commemorated Marvin Gaye Way.