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I feel like I'm cheating. I was sent home from school around 4:30 because all my work was crap. My migraine reinstituted itself this afternoon, and despite all my hard work, everything was coming out like shit. I sanded blindly while resting my head on my desk, and when I asked questions, I stared blankly and uncomprehendingly while simplistic answers were given to me. It was a relief to be told to go home. At least my effort was being acknowledged. If the rest of the week continues along this vein, I sure hope I can get another extension.

Wet, sloppy snow bukkaked the city all morning. I was soaked while biking to school. And now it's raining steadily and heavily. While dodging sluices of water shot up by other traffic, I watched grass poke up from slush. Now that I've taken my boots off, the room smells uncomfortably like Swiss cheese. Scroffy is nowhere to be seen. I hope he found someplace warm and dry to roost.

I'd vowed to go back to the gym and to kung fu this week, but my migraine is battling this decision. When I got home, my hearing was shutting down. It was like suddenly descending a steep hill in a fast car and forgetting to swallow to pop my ears. Only with this sort of shutdown, swallowing doesn't accomplish anything. For a few moments, I was afraid I might black out altogether, but now that I'm sitting down, I'm reaching a sort of equilibrium.

Last night, while my brain was giddy with the promise of sleep, f00 taught me some basic calculus without benefit of paper and pen. I have no idea what I can do with these integrals, but they're there, should I need them. And in the midst of all that math talk, I blurted out something in all honesty that both embarassed and delighted me. When f00 asked me the formula for determining the area of a circle, I responded, "[Pi] R round."

Wow.

And samosa R triangle, too.

Just a thought...

Date: 2003-10-21 05:50 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] montecristo.livejournal.com
Please, I don't mean to imply that I think you're "faking" or anything, but I am wondering, how do you manage to pick up integral calculus and post these well-composed entries when your concentration is out the window like that??

Re: Just a thought...

Date: 2003-10-21 06:12 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] shanmonster.livejournal.com
This is the odd thing. I can't speak for shit when I have a migraine, yet I tend to write even more cognizantly than when I'm in my normal frame of mind. My written vocabulary seems larger while my spoken lexicon decreases. f00 seems to have theories about why this is. It doesn't make much sense to me. My brain is fuckered.

As for the integral calculus, last night, I had taken an Imitrix which appeared to hold the migraine at bay for a few hours while giving me all sorts of bizarre physical experiences. I was fine until about 1:00 this afternoon, and then everything came crashing back down again.

I feel better than I did a couple of hours ago, but I'm still foggy and confused. I just fled f00's room because I couldn't concentrate on our conversation. The noises he made while gobbling down smelly pizza-flavoured hotdogs was too distracting and repulsive for me to stay.

Re: Just a thought...

Date: 2003-10-21 06:14 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] f00dave.livejournal.com
She was fine last night and this morning. She's also only got her weird deficiency on one side of her brain (the left), in the rear, mostly involving the associative areas. At least, that's where the migrane effects seem to manifest.

I think she's faking, too. ;-D

Re: Just a thought...

Date: 2003-10-21 07:09 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] f00dave.livejournal.com
Theory being that the speech centers of the brain are on one side (the affected one, I surmise), while the written language centers are on the other. Simple, 'cause it's true. =)

AND DON'T YOU BE DISSING THE HEINZ PIZZA HOT DOGS, SCROTUMCHIN!! I'll have you know, they were *quite* good, covered with sharp mustard and that ketchup w/tabasco "Kickers" stuff.

Mmmm....

Re: Just a thought...

Date: 2003-10-21 07:14 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] shanmonster.livejournal.com
The weird thing is my writing abilities outlast my reading abilities. When I got home, I tried to read the back of a bubblebath bottle, and couldn't make sense of the words. Yet I was able to write. I often have to close my eyes while writing so I'm not confused by the words on the screen, though. I don't get it.

I am feeling considerably better than when I got home, though. Within a half hour of the bubble bath bottle incident, I was able to read my novel and make sense of it.

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