I wrote you a list.
1. Earlier today I gave myself a headache when, after staring at a computer screen all morning, I came home and spent two hours on the computer reading (peering at?) my RSS reader. Then I went out and tried to read a book with tiny little type without my prescription glasses. Now there is a nice tight band behind my eyes and kind of just above my eyebrows and it makes me feel kind of ill. And silly.
2. When I was doing my historical research job I went away up North with the senior researcher who was a lovely but also quite anxious and anxiety-inducing. She was always trying to squeeze more research hours out of the day than I believed were there. Anyway, we had to drive from the place where we were researching in Kaitaia to Whangarei airport (which is a decent drive). She squeezed and squeezed at those hours until they were quite wrung out and I was rushing around the Far North District Council archives frantically, and then we drove in a massive big panic back to Whangarei airport and only just made our flight. By the time I arrived in Wellington I had an awesome stress headache pulsating behind my left eye and I felt quite nauseous. This was the first and only time I've ever had a migraine. And it was induced by one person and my inability to express my annoyance. All that stress and anxiety just built up like - GAH.
3. One of my all time personal favourite headaches, and one that I was inflicted not infrequently over the last year, is the You-Need-New-Glasses headache. Not only do you feel crappy on pretty much a daily basis, but also you are inflicted with a sense of impending doom about the costs that are looming on the not so distant horizon! Hooray!
4. No list of headaches could be complete without mentioning the headaches that one is lucky enough to get from hangovers. Best case scenario involves a constant dull pain, and the head feeling as though it's stuffed full of cotton wool, worst case scenario involves eyes swelling up and feeling as though they are BULGING out of your head. Eye packs are useful at such a time, I find. In fact, my mum has this really awesome face mask thing that is filled with that creepy ice pack gel and she keeps it in the fridge for such emergencies. It has eye holes, and is almost the same kind of shape as the mask that Cat Woman wears. Classy and practical. I am jealous and I want one. FYI, it's my birthday in two weeks time.
5. One time, I was doing some image research at the newspaper office and the Image Librarian complained that she'd had a terrible headache all morning and that she'd tried all the normal things to get rid of it. Normal things meaning: she'd had a couple of cups of coffee and Coke because she was pretty sure it was a caffeine headache; it hadn't gone away, so she'd had some painkillers. I asked her if she'd had a glass of water which she hadn't and the moment she did it disappeared. So, yes. Let It Be Known That: having a glass of water can often be a good way to get rid of a headache.
Aaaaaaand that was the best time I ever fixed someone else's headache. I want to fix my own now so I may go and turn of my eyes for a few hours.
Do you have a favourite headache? Go on, I'm like, so sure you do.
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1. Earlier today I gave myself a headache when, after staring at a computer screen all morning, I came home and spent two hours on the computer reading (peering at?) my RSS reader. Then I went out and tried to read a book with tiny little type without my prescription glasses. Now there is a nice tight band behind my eyes and kind of just above my eyebrows and it makes me feel kind of ill. And silly.
2. When I was doing my historical research job I went away up North with the senior researcher who was a lovely but also quite anxious and anxiety-inducing. She was always trying to squeeze more research hours out of the day than I believed were there. Anyway, we had to drive from the place where we were researching in Kaitaia to Whangarei airport (which is a decent drive). She squeezed and squeezed at those hours until they were quite wrung out and I was rushing around the Far North District Council archives frantically, and then we drove in a massive big panic back to Whangarei airport and only just made our flight. By the time I arrived in Wellington I had an awesome stress headache pulsating behind my left eye and I felt quite nauseous. This was the first and only time I've ever had a migraine. And it was induced by one person and my inability to express my annoyance. All that stress and anxiety just built up like - GAH.
3. One of my all time personal favourite headaches, and one that I was inflicted not infrequently over the last year, is the You-Need-New-Glasses headache. Not only do you feel crappy on pretty much a daily basis, but also you are inflicted with a sense of impending doom about the costs that are looming on the not so distant horizon! Hooray!
4. No list of headaches could be complete without mentioning the headaches that one is lucky enough to get from hangovers. Best case scenario involves a constant dull pain, and the head feeling as though it's stuffed full of cotton wool, worst case scenario involves eyes swelling up and feeling as though they are BULGING out of your head. Eye packs are useful at such a time, I find. In fact, my mum has this really awesome face mask thing that is filled with that creepy ice pack gel and she keeps it in the fridge for such emergencies. It has eye holes, and is almost the same kind of shape as the mask that Cat Woman wears. Classy and practical. I am jealous and I want one. FYI, it's my birthday in two weeks time.
5. One time, I was doing some image research at the newspaper office and the Image Librarian complained that she'd had a terrible headache all morning and that she'd tried all the normal things to get rid of it. Normal things meaning: she'd had a couple of cups of coffee and Coke because she was pretty sure it was a caffeine headache; it hadn't gone away, so she'd had some painkillers. I asked her if she'd had a glass of water which she hadn't and the moment she did it disappeared. So, yes. Let It Be Known That: having a glass of water can often be a good way to get rid of a headache.
Aaaaaaand that was the best time I ever fixed someone else's headache. I want to fix my own now so I may go and turn of my eyes for a few hours.
Do you have a favourite headache? Go on, I'm like, so sure you do.
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