Those rubber band balls you can buy at office supply stores? You know. The ones that are the size of a baseball. Round. Made entirely of rubber bands. And which would probably hurt like a motherfucker if you threw it at someone. Yeah, those rubber band balls. How are they made? Is it a machine?Continue reading “On Things I Wonder About”
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On an Early Morning Headache
Begin with the premise that I’m not a morning person. Oh, I can function in the morning. But I typical begin the day with some lethargy, and I don’t catch my first wind until ten-ish. It’s not uncommon that I’ll wake with a headache. Some would call that a hangover, but I wonder if it’sContinue reading “On an Early Morning Headache”
On a Monster of a Headache
I saw online a few years ago a headache described not as an event but rather as a symbiotic parasite that lives inside the skull. More often than not it lets the host live in peace, but sometimes it moves around, and pain in the result. Occasionally, a lot of pain is the result. ThisContinue reading “On a Monster of a Headache”
On Headaches
Today seems to be a day for headaches. All throughout the friends list I see people suffering from cranial pain. I, too, suffer that pain. It's part migraine. I can tell by the location. It's part exhaustion. Last night's inventory kicked my fucking ass. I basically put in two eight-hour days yesterday — from 9Continue reading “On Headaches”
Another Day Gone
My supervisor called. He wanted to know how I was doing, how I was holding up. Not in the business sense. In the personal sense. I had a headache. Not a dull buzz, not quite an all-encompassing migraine. Just a sharp pain. I was tired. Sleep has been odd, and fleeting. I need an occasionalContinue reading “Another Day Gone”