The fabulous translation of the instructions for my new bendy USB keyboard
The flexible keyboard cannot be used in the following conditions:
This product cannot be contacted with sharp objects
It cannot be contacted with oil or organic impregnate like acetone and Toulon, aso
It cannot be pressed when it was rolled
Do not place heavy objects on in a long time
It cannot be pulled into the oven and putted on the fire to teast
It cannot pull out strength to twist or pull it
I have a headache, so why you ma ask am I sitting in front of my laptop? Well because I didn’t get chance to watch this week’s Zero Punctuation review yet and i’ll be damned if anything gets in between me and that bitter, crazy english man.
I’ve suffered from migraine for a ling time, since I was about 12 or so. Ranging from headache with blurred vision to full on hemiplegic migraine (not cool). For anyone who has never experienced one or it you’re one of those people who refers to every headache as a migraine (I hate you people) the most pleasant way I can describe them would be if someone was standing on your head, pushing on your left eyeball and punching you in the stomach at the same time. So if like me you have had to endure this I researched a few different remedies to try and shake them off or possibly prevent them. Should be useful with the exams coming up.
Apples
One forum suggests that eating apples can help to relieve migraine and insists that when over the counter medicine doesn’t help Granny Smith will.
Vinegar
At least three people on the site suggested that vinegar has helped them to recover from their migraine: ”An old fashioned remedy for any headache was to soak a piece from a brown paper bag with cider vinegar and apply it to the forehead. Something about breathing the fumes helps in some cases, anyway”.
Avoid Carbs
Stodgy carbohydrates sugar and caffeine are all triggers for migraine
B Vitamins
B Vitamins are good for warding off migraines. In particular, vitamins B2, B3 and B6. Migraines have also been liked to a deficiency in magnesium. Black beans, soy milk, oysters, whole grain breads, nuts, halibut and spinach are all rich in magnesium. Regular headaches can also be a sign of iron deficiency and anaemia.
How to get through a particularly bad migraine
1. Get warm. If there’s one thing i learned it’s that feeling cold only makes it more frustrating and unpleasent. Throw on comfortable clothes or lie in bed.
2. Stay away from light. there’s nothing worse than having to put up with head pain and eye pain. It only makes you feel sicker.
3. Take deep breaths, make sure you get plenty of fresh air. Take a nap but leave the window open.
4. Try not to think about it too much. I know it sounds crazy but I know from experience that lying around feeling sorry for yoursef makes it worse.
As I said in my last post, my brain is awash in miscellaneous thoughts and my usual nerdish leanings. So for your reading pleasure/misery here’s a list of my random thoughts.
- Who would win in a fight between Born Survivor man machine Edward “Bear” Grylls and an actual Bear. Maybe not a very big bear, and not a baby bear either because that’s mean, but a short bear.
VS 
- Why are teddy bears, a favourite among young children, modeled on one of the most dangerous creatures in the wild? Also why are all my thoughts somehow related to bears?
- What happens between my brain and my hand that means I can come up with cool cartoon characters yet when I try and get them on to paper they all end up looking like Sloth from The Goonies.
- If John Mc Giver had been on the A-Team crime as we know it would not exist.
- Of all the truths I must acknowledge, that I will never be any good at web design is possibly the harshest of these.
- The Xbox 360 is possibly one of the greatest inventions of our time, but Grand Theft Auto IV may as well be made from the wood of the true cross for the effort it takes to get hold of one.
As I’m writing this blog, among the many many arbitrary thoughts running through my brain, is The Beatles‘ song The Long and Winding Road. Why? Because it hit me right between the eyes earlier that tomorrow is potentially my last college lecture…ever! Thanks to my lack of computer skills and my general incompetence I spent most of my second last day and night in a freezing computer lab wishing I could turn back time and pick an elective I wasn’t terrible at. Now in fairness I’m usually okay at computer stuff but I’m not the most organised person in the world which I learned today is a major part of web design. Who knew? There’s nothing like going from out of control maniacal laughter to floods of tears in under ten minutes, all in all it was a proud day for strong women everywhere.
I just realised in the last week that assignments and exams aside, college is a test of endurance. I’ve had subjects in that past I didn’t like (ahem, radio) or were really challenging (*cough* media law *cough*), but part of the experience is learning that you can’ always just do the subjects you want or are good at. In many professions like journalism you will more than likely down the line end up doing a job you hate and college. In this way college prepares you for the real world in ways you don’t even know.
