Spring Allergies?

I have this very strange scratchy throat and an off-and-on flu..
Some days I just can't stop coughing. But then some days, the cough just disappears.
Then there's this flu. Waking up in the morning, first thing I have to do is blow my nose.
Later in the day, it's like I never had the flu and sneezes that I had in the morning.
It's really weird. Is it the air? I don't feel sick at all, not like I did right after I got back from XiAn.
My body feels fine, it's just this weird cough that I have and my nose that decides to run on its own whenever it wants to.

I was asked to play a hand in making a decision for Annika and Andrea last night.. should they go for dinner first before working out in the gym. GYM first of course! Anyone in their right mind would say that wouldn't they? Who eats before they work out? Haven't their parents told them that exercising and jumping around right after eating causes appendicitis? My parents used to always tell me that when I was young.

Daddy: "Don't jump around!!! You want to get appendix is it? Then have to go for operation. Stop jumping around!" - in Malaysian English =D

The reactions I got after explaining to them the reason why they should go to the gym first was, "What! That is SO not true! You just get appendicitis for no reason. It's not because of exercising right after eating. Your parents just told you that to let your food digest, to scare you!"

-___- I swear, what I say is true. Hmph. They didn't believe me.

Maybe Americans haven't heard of that before.
Or maybe what my parents have been telling me has been wrong all this time. I mean, come to think of it, instead of using the 'appendicitis' term, we use the wrong term of 'appendix'. Haha.