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Monday,
Let's see -- how to think about something else other than work. Well, I did notice something interesting. Okay, it's not interesting to the parties involved, more like a right royal nightmare, but I thought it curious to note that at least four of the journallers I read on a regular basis suffer from migraines. I don't have the faintest idea what this means, if anything. I've read articles on the link between migraines and genius, of course, so maybe that's a sort of left-handed compliment for you hard-working diarists out there -- your heads may be exploding, but what comes out of them is brilliant (so would that make the corollary, "Melanie tends to read the journals of brilliant people"?) Where do I want to go with this? I don't have the faintest idea -- I have a headache myself right now, but it's the garden variety "barometer's dropping/I've been hunched in front of a computer all day" pain, nothing that a couple of ibuprofen can't handle. I really feel sorry for migraine sufferers -- from the descriptions I've read, it seems like someone took the worst elements of a hangover, an overdose and a CVA and blended them into an extra-special flavor of hell. Worst of all, there doesn't seem to be any real way of cutting that neurochemical cascade off at the pass -- some medications will help alleviate some of the pain if you take them early enough, but they certainly don't knock out the whole thing. God, I'm wandering again, I'm sorry. I think I brought this up because the journallers who suffer migraines are also the ones who tend to be the most literate, entertaining and flamboyant with the language, which makes me wonder what kind of connection, if any, there is between the brain's language centers and migraine precursors. It also conjures up the question of tradeoffs, of comfort for skill -- would a mediocre writer be willing to suffer this kind of agony if it meant a marked improvement in his or her writing ability? And who would go to those kind of lengths for that kind of talent? The Devil and Dan Gallagher, indeed. |
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