Just what I needed
Been utterly miserable the last few days with the kind of migraine pain that makes you want to crawl into a hole and die, or at least escape reality for a few days; yet though all your dreams when you sleep may be vivid and escapist on the surface, they too are too sharp and pointed to bring relief. Friday was especially bad--I spent hours in bed, crying. And then there's the nausea. And the dizziness any time the light shifts, like when the sunlight comes shining between the branches of a tree while a breeze is blowing. Everything's too bright and sharp and painful yet somehow too dull all at the same time.
Anyway, I tried taking my mind off all that by reading, which mostly works as long as the pain of focusing on the page isn't so much that it overcomes the ability of the narrative to absorb my attention. So tonight instead of reading, I finally got around to listening (via the Listen Again link (though it is audio, RealAudio is pretty dial-up friendly)) to this week's episode of Just a Minute, and that helped immensely. Monkeys! They keep trying to talk about monkeys!
I'm still so zoned out that I have no idea if any of this post made any sense and it hurts too much to go back and try to read it. Listening to "Just a Minute" probably doesn't help make me a more sensible person either, but at least I got some good laughs tonight.
Anyway, I tried taking my mind off all that by reading, which mostly works as long as the pain of focusing on the page isn't so much that it overcomes the ability of the narrative to absorb my attention. So tonight instead of reading, I finally got around to listening (via the Listen Again link (though it is audio, RealAudio is pretty dial-up friendly)) to this week's episode of Just a Minute, and that helped immensely. Monkeys! They keep trying to talk about monkeys!
I'm still so zoned out that I have no idea if any of this post made any sense and it hurts too much to go back and try to read it. Listening to "Just a Minute" probably doesn't help make me a more sensible person either, but at least I got some good laughs tonight.