journal features
movie reviews
photo of the day

sundays are for migraines

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-eight years and a million words

Toronto, 2011.07.24

Staggered off the couch at around one with a left side headache that felt just like a day-long weather headache. And I was right.

Two cafergot, two colas (happily not "cokes"), and thirteen hours of vomiting and writhing in pain and I was out of bed again, more or less. Eventually drifted out the door around six and took in the last of the day and the last of the jazz festival (a latin outfit from NYC was on stage, and they were good). Fetched up ordering a gluten-free pizza and watching everyone head for home.

I bet a full third of the full-on migraines I've had have been on a Sunday.

rand()m quote

It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go we have come to our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.

—Wendell Berry