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I'm pretty sure that WAS a migraine I was fighting off for a couple days there, because it just wiped me OUT. I used to get migraines pretty regularly in college, usually as a response to stress. I'd make it through midterms or finals, usually with multiple all-nighters and days of panic (because that probably-ADHD made me a chronic procrastinator-yet-perfectionist), and as soon as it was over, I'd be laid out with a migraine for a couple days.

Now I still get them, but usually recognize it coming on... it'll be a low-level headache that rapidly gets worse, and comes with a lot of light sensitivity. If I catch it early enough, and take some ibuprofin/naproxen, hydrate, and get a nap in, I can almost always head it off.

This time I didn't get the photosensitivity, and nothing I did seemed to impact it at all. Ultimately, sleep seemed to chase it away, but I am still pretty tired and drained feeling.

We did also have a pretty big storm system come through today. It rained and had some extremely impressive thunder at work, but north a ways there was a tornado warning. (Literally yesterday I texted Alex about how we hadn't had many tornadoes this year in CO... didn't mean to summon one!)

I'm a little dismayed at how much of August is gone! I feel like the month just started, and I meant to put it on pause for a few days... and now it's three quarters over. But two more days of work, and then I've got more than a week off!!


But check out these great ravens that were hanging out on the fence near work. They were huge!