Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Depressed. :(

I know this fails as a blog post. Oh well.

Tuesday, September 1, 2009

la la la

So my new schedule looks like this:
MWF: Bio lecture 9-9:50, Honors Survey of Southern Values 10-10:50
Tuesdays: Bio lab 9-11:50, Psych (technically) 12:30-1:45, Spanish 2-3:15
Thursdays: Same as Tuesday minus bio lab

So in my honors class we (about 15 of us) sit around this long rectangular table and discuss things. It's pretty interesting. Not exactly life-altering, but interesting nonetheless.

I think I've pinpointed my migraine schedule. That sounds super lame. lol. First, I think I get them after my sleeping pattern gets really thrown off. I got one yesterday, and last week my sleep was less than routine. That would make sense, seeing as how I am almost desperate to fall asleep at the same time each night (10 or 11, I'll admit it). It's like my unconscious knows that if I don't, my brain can't handle it and BAM the migraine hits.

I got my first one when I was about 12 or 13. I was at my great-grandmother's house in Florida, and suddenly in the center of my vision appeared this flashing dot. It scared me silly of course, seeing as how the dot slowly spread into an arc, got bigger, and eventually moved all the way to the right, out of my line of vision. As soon as the weird light was gone, the migraine hit with full-on intensity. I thought I was dying. But now, after a few of these a year, I've pinpointed these occurrences. When the flashing dot appears, I run for the medicine cabinet, darken up the room, and get the ice pack ready. Ice is the only thing that halfway numbs the pain.

I've always thought this was so interesting. I didn't even know these lights happened to other people until I researched it last year. (I know that this makes me super lame, by the way!) It's like my brain is warning me that the migraine is coming. Kind of nice of my brain to do, but I get to lay there in lovely anticipation of the pain.

Can you tell I've decided to major in psychology? lol. Forgive me for the random ramble, I've been wanting to record this self-analysis for awhile. haha.

I AM going to travel around the United Kingdom in the summer of 2010. (Betsy, this is for you!)
:)