That was unexpected

[mousme]

I ended up waking up half an hour before my alarm clock this morning. Weird. This is not usually my style. I guess my internal clock must still be messed up from working night shift.

Canada Day was lovely. Great weather, good friends ( and his lovely girlfriend), a nice picnic. Unfortunately, the headache I thought I'd licked came back with a vengeance on our way to owldaughter's Canada Day concert, and by the end I was ready to crawl into a hole and die. However, Canada Day comes up only once a year, and so I put on a brave face and toughed it out. The fireworks very nearly killed me, but luckily sandman7 had some Tylenol, which took the edge off.

All in all, in spite of the ice picks being driven into my head, I had a great time.

I got home to find a puddle of cat puke on my bed. I gave up the battle to keep the cats out of my bedroom earlier this summer, because it was either keep the door closed and suffocate from the heat, or let the cats in and retain some ability to breathe when I sleep. The cats thus have repaid me by puking in the middle of my bed. I was unimpressed.

So, unexpected laundry aside, I have been puttering around this morning, getting ready for my trip to Québec City tonight. I have tidied a little bit (minimally), and now I have to take a shower and pack my stuff. I also have to turn off my computer and find my 2006 NaNo novel, which I will be editing today in the company of tcaptain. I've already started the process, and with any luck I'll have a draft ready for submission by the end of the month, earlier if I really step on it.

Comments

[luvenditti.livejournal.com]

good voyaging to you!

[kino-kid.livejournal.com]

Oh no! I didn't know there was a concert this year. Sorry to hear that your head was mean to you for most of it.

[dizietsma.livejournal.com]

You had a headache, killed it with caffeine, then it came back worse than ever. Could it be because of the caffeine? Sounds like a classic withdrawl symptom, complete with the rush and crash effects of drug dependency. I only ask because I developed exactly the same thing in 2000, except my crash was sleep rather than headaches. An hour after a coffee, I was basically sleepwalking, and I would stave it off with Red Bull, which would cause even more aggressive sleepwalking. Went cold turkey one day and suffered like hell for about 4 weeks (and I was a cranky bastard too), and then started to get back to something resembling normal.

[mousme.livejournal.com]

Nope. Ended up not having caffeine all day, as it happens. The headache faded entirely for the entire afternoon, and came back as we were walking directly into the sun. I'm pretty photosensitive, so having the sun directly in my eyes apparently re-triggered the latent headache.

It could be withdrawal, but the study results are inconclusive so far. ;)