I haven't been feeling well the last couple days - at first it was a stomach ache, and I slept that off. However, then this pounding headache set in. I tried eating. That didn't help. I tried drinking lots of water. That didn't help. I tried sleeping. That didn't help. While I'm not entirely opposed to the use of pharmaceuticals to address illness, I am hesitant to drug myself. Evidently, if my body is telling me it hurts, there is something wrong... taking a pain killer won't fix whatever is wrong! However, I'm about to leave to go do a seminar on the faulty mothers in Adam Bede, and despite being a grad student, this is only my third seminar... and up until now, I've only really had a 50% success rate. Given this nearness to failure (all right, I did decently well on the other seminar... just not as well as I did on the first), it wouldn't surprise me if the headache is stress related. As such, I'm undecided... if I take an advil now, I won't be fighting the pain during the seminar. However, maybe just doing the seminar will relieve the stress, and then taking an advil wouldn't have been worth while...
In any event, while I may not look all that professional (not that we are required to), at least I'm comfortable.



