h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I have reached the point of no return. I have this assignement to write and I just can't be bothered with it anymore. I reached the halfway point yesterday evening and now I'm doing everything in my power not to continue writing.

Any ideas what to do, anyone?

You are suffering from the glass half empty syndrome when it's
obvious that the glass is half full.
Leave it, go for a long walk, have a glass of wine and some
then go to bed.
It will look better tomorrow.

So, did it look better today?

I was actually going to get it over and done with today, but ended up doing something totally different, which was supposed to be a nice little task and became a monsterous time consuming piece of work... We just about finished it (me and friends, it was group work).
So... as ever, my weekend is going to be taken up by writing the rest of the assignment and doing some other things I didn't manage to do this week. Great.

How are you, Shea? Long time...
Thanks for the encouragement, Mistadrong. Sadly, further to writing this I got a god awful migraine and didn't really manage to do much that day...

I remember the weekends spent writing assignments and studying! Yet another reason I gave up on the extra degree later in life! TJ wasn't too pleased with the amount of time classwork took after we got married!

I'm just fine, and hope you're the same!

I did a stint of studying through the Open University and I too remember the
time spent writing essays; so time consuming.
You finish one and you start colating for the next one.
I'm a migraine sufferer as well so I sympathise with you Elly.

Sorry to hear about the migraines! I get them as well. It's gotten so bad, that I'm going to a special "headache center" to get some help. I was in the Emergency Room a few weeks ago with the worst one ever.

Mine are hormonal, apparently, so using all types of hormonal contraception make them worse. On the other hand, I don't really have time for babies just now...

Finished the assignment yesterday. Just when they gave us a week's extention, too.

congrats

Yay!! Bravo!

My migraines start with gradual loss of vision, scared me the first time
and I thought I was going to go blind.
Those bright zig-zag lines appeared along with nausea (and an axe in my skull)
and I realised what it was.

Had an attack in town one Saturday morning so I went to Bo*ts the chemist to
buy some migraine tablets.
They have to give you a "consultation" before they hand them over.
I stood patiently while she went through a checklist but in the end I was
almost screaming at her. GIVE ME THETABLETS.
It was too late by then anyway

Most of mine were hormonal as well, El. Although now it's about 50% hormonal, 40% seeing the wrong kind of lights (!), and 10% stress. I've been taking a progestin-only pill for the past 8 months, and for a while it helped the hormonal ones, but they're back worse than ever now. Menopause would probably cure that, but I don't think we can flick a switch for that!

Mistadrong, the first aura migraine I had was scary too! It starts small, like that after-vision thing when someone takes a flash picture. Then it grows into a crescent moon shape for me. The first one ended up filling almost my entire vision, with just a little hole in the middle to see through! Luckily (?) I don't seem to get pain when I get the aura, and vice-versa. When I went to the emergency room, the first "triage" nurse was asking me all sorts of questions, and I wasn't speaking loudly enough, and he couldn't hear me and kept asking louder and louder! Clueless! At least, after I got in, the nurse I had was a migraine sufferer as well, and she brought me to a quiet room with the lights out. Gave me a lovely pain killer that she said was 10 times stronger than morphine. The headache left after about 5 minutes, but then the pain killer had me puking for a few hours. You know, the headache was worse!

The worst I got was crying and wailing until the doctor came and gave me a shot of morphin where the sun don't shine. Headache was worse than the needle and I haven't been this bad since.
My only cure is to sleep for 2 hours, then get up, take paracetamol and usually go back to bed again.
I don't usually get an aura. I get a firework display. And everybody becomes REALLY LOOOOOOUUUUUUUD!

I think you live in the Liverpool area don't you Elly?
What's happened to the Scouse homour?
Are the Mersey police trying to stamp it out?
http://tinyurl.com/dene8q

Maybe so. I didn't ask. Too busy with yet another assignment that I have finished in a rush this evening.