SHAFTWAXER

My head is pounding.

I have no idea why, but damn, I’ve got the mother of all headaches right now. It also comes at a decidedly inconvenient time, I would much rather be working with a clear head instead of one filled with asbestos.

This whole mess started last night sometime. I didn’t get much done, so I figured I just might as well go to bed and start fresh the next day. Did a little reading… which turned into a LOT of reading. I got to a part of the book that was just damn good, and what was supposed to be a couple of pages turned into a little over an hour. Oops. While this was going on, however, I was noticing that the tiny little headache that I had when I first got in bed was slowly getting bigger, expanding exponentially like some recursive virus. By the time I decided to call it quits for the night, it had gotten pretty bad.

Partway through the night, while listening to The Al Franken Show, I fall asleep, but only for about 10 minutes. I wake up to the sound of my cat crying. A lot. Loudly. Repeatedly. My head hurts more. I fall back asleep.

I wake up 5 hours later, and it’s worse yet. Lots of pain and pressure above my right eye. It’s one of those things where you just want to curl up on the couch (in front of the fan) and just die.

My head is still pounding.