THE MIGRAINE (yesterday) eventually went away. Got barely the tiniest hint of a headache, though I felt mighty nauseated for ages and ages and couldn't see straight for a long time. (I only managed to tap in yesterday's post bc I touch-type. Otherwise it would have been impossible!) If you have "classical" migraine and try e.g. to read a book, half the text will seem to disappear as the visual field is full of blind spots and zigzags. If you're wondering what on earth I'm talking about "migraine" without severe headache - as I said yesterday my dr. said I'm just lucky. Every time it has happened in the last 12 years or more I've escaped the headache. It's called "subclinical migraine".
I did a fair bit of writing once I felt better. I am on to the time I was at university in 1991/1992. The course I chose was called "comparative literature" - this gave me the widest possible choice of "modules" so after 2 terms of "prelims" were done with I jumped straight into "The World of (Icelandic) Sagas" and "Creative Writing: The Novel". My teacher for the latter was a lovely bubbly lady called Michele Roberts. Unlike the authors of those gerzillions of "how to write a 20 million copy bestseller" - type books you'll find in the "creative writing" sections of bookshops... and yet none of their works (except the how-to) are even in print! Let alone selling 20 million copies- this lady has been Booker shortlisted, been a Booker Prize judge... and is now a Professor of Creative Writing ... yes! Back at UEA where I was a student (many many MANY moons ago). She is a really good teacher, full of pizzazz and zest (and she loves knocking back the red wine if I recall correctly (!))
My robos have been hiding in lavatory tubes for the past three days. At one point I seriously thought they'd all escaped. Then I leaned over their domain and cooed "come out you great big fat gremlins!" and three pink noses, six beady eyes appear from the tubes. Spherical is most ambivalent to this point, as she doesn't really like me, and yet if something exciting seems to be going on with the other two (who do like me) she doesn't want to be missing out. Which results in lots of scurrying around in a confused kind of way.
The weather is gorgeous. At last! The trees are going gold, the air is cold. Autumn proper is here. At such very long last. (It means the magic mushrooms will be out in profusion after the next rains, except living in a metropolis I know nowhere to pick them... ho-hum anyway dem trippy fungoids are a thing of my past. Now I can FEEL the beautiful autumn I feel cleaner today than I have in a very long time. It's such a good feeling.
Right and on that note: I'm off!
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My sister used to get migraines that sent her to bed with meds...
Glad you are feeling better. :)
Santa Baby is sooo cool. That's a must have around holiday time. I'm not ready for the seasonal stuff just yet but went I start getting into the mood LOOKOUT!
Hi Gled. Someone left a message for you via my blog. It was from an entry ages ago about a visitor from Myanmar. Here is the link, scroll down to the last two comments:
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blogID=13262912&postID=
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You'll have to copy and paste that link together in the browser.
Don't know how you found Princess Tanya's... but so glad you did! This place is amazing!!! I'm guessing you never sleep.
Sympathy for the migraine. I lose left lower quadrant of visual field a few hours before my head explodes. Occasionally, I lose more. Dealing blackjack is a nightmare because the "shoe" (containing cards) is on the left, which means I sometimes have to turn my whole head like a weird android croupier thingy with tunnel vision. (Unless you're a casino junkie, that might be over your head :)
Thanks for the link in your writers section! (Ooh, does that mean I'm a writer?!)
Plenty of fields with cow patties perfect for mushies near where I live! (Not that I've ever gone picking them.)
Thanks for your comment you left in my blog. We have no Vietnamese keybord, but we cope with complicated diacritics and ligatures by some softwares, like Unikey or Vietkey. For example, when you type "aa", Unikey will change these letter to "â"; when you type "v[x", you will receive the word "vỡ". It's not too difficult for us to remember these rule.
Do you want to learn Vietnamese?
I remember that story too about baby Jessica, where have all the years gone?
sorry about the migraine, glad to hear it's now gone. baby jessica... wow, what a distant memory
Hi Glen,
I'm glad your migrain is better, I had those a few years ago when I was on the B-pill, and also found out that that particular one also caused brain tumors--uck.
I was looking for your self-portrait you mention on my blog, but couldn't find it in any of your blogs.
I guess you haven't posted it yet?
Janice~
Well, this should make you feel better: I'm odder than you are!
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I've never heard of migraines with just the aura. It drove me nuts to be at work and have my vision bail on me right in the middle of typing a large report! I had hoped they would disappear when I hit a "certain age..." but to no avail. Drat!
I'm so glad you're having such a marvelous day, feeling clean and refreshed!!! Enjoy and peace.
~~~Blessings~~~
Glad the migraine's gone honey. I have great hopes for your book.
The weather's gorgeous here too!
Okay, how the heck do you leave comments on this blog? Half of the posts don't have "comments"! Arrgh.
I'm glad your migraine went away. Thanks for stopping by my blog.
Why am I not in your list of USA blogs?
J.
Thanks for the comments everyone. No migraine but very under the weather. Must be the miserable time of year!!
I suffer from migraines, too. You have my deepest sympathies, Gleds. But unsalted peanuts (later post)? Very odd!
Although official road signs throughout Wales are bilingual, the wording on money is English only (apart from the legend on Welsh pound coins: "pleidol wyf i'm wlad"). And although many shops employ bilingual signage, Welsh only very rarely appears on product packaging or instructions.
Ancient Chinese rack pic:
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