Bearshorty's musings

Today resulted in a monster headache from staring at computer and TV. I barely sat through “House,” because otherwise I would have to wait a week for the episode to pop up on Hulu and then with Advil and an ice-pack on my head I went into my dark quiet room to avoid all possible stimulation to my brain. It was not a migraine, just full frontal lobe revenge for modern technology and my addiction to it.

( House S6E13 )

I slept in, in the morning, while my parents went to Brooklyn. Instead I ate my breakfast (I made English muffin with egg and cheese) and watched Bill Maher show of nice funny political discussion.

I started the next Hebrew Chapter on plurals. Things are getting complicated and I can’t go fast if I want to absorb it properly. I got plurals in consonant well, but the vowels confuse me since most nouns have their own pattern. I guess I just need more practice.

I left the house at 4:30 because I was meeting Bear in the city for the opera. We met up in the Columbus Circle around 6:30 and had dinner at WholeFoods. Bear had Indian and I had sushi. I also made a mistake, seeing it retroactively, and got a big cup of green tea. Caffeine and I don’t always mix well and I think caffeine was the trigger here. It was also raining like crazy, sheets and sheets of rain and that might have been a trigger too. By 8pm when we got to the Met to see “Barber of Seville,” my favorite comedy opera, I had a slight headache that kept growing throughout the evening. At first I thought it was because of the rain but it wouldn’t go away and I didn’t feel that great. But I managed to enjoy the opera because it has fantastic physical comedy and it is really funny and the music and arias are great. I don’t think Bear is much of an opera fan because he doesn’t like subtitles usually and he decided that he prefers musicals. But still, we had fun. By the time we headed to my house around midnight, my headache refused to go away and just got heavy. By the time we got home I was thinking that my blood pressure was probably up. When I measured it, it read 150/106 which slightly freaked me out. It took a little while, maybe 20 minutes for it to go down to normal level, and that did not help my headache, which during the night turned into a migraine. Maybe it was a migraine all along. Because of all the worry and probably the caffeine my palpitations started to act up and get really loud, which did not help getting a good night sleep. I still had a good Saturday overall, but the last part of the night was a little stressful. No green tea with caffeine for me ever.