'It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...' – Charles Dickens

I've been feeling cold and tired all day. This is despite getting eight or nine hours of sleep last night – although I was a little restless at first – and it being a sunny, almost twenty degree day. In the afternoon I had a bath to try to warm up. I lay on the couch reading for a while but didn't actually fall asleep. The thing that bothers me about these feelings is I don't know if they're normal weekend lethargy after a busy week or if they're pre-cursers to a migraine.

How do you tell the difference between normal life-effects and symptoms?

'A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.' – Mark Twain

About once a week I wake up in the morning and feel very strongly that I don't want to go to work or writing class. I know lots of people don't like going to work or school – this is different. It's almost on the level of a physical repulsion. Sometimes I'm able to take time off, coddle myself and stay in bed. Usually I tell myself not to be a baby. That's what I did this morning, but as I was walking to the train station I got dizzy, weepy and uncoordinated. That made me wonder if my just-waking-I-don't-want-to-do-anything feeling was really an early warning system or a bizarre symptom of the impending migraine.

Does this happen to anyone else?

'Every moment in our lives is a miracle we should enjoy instead of ignoring.' – Yoko Ono

Something strange happened today. I don't know yet if it will lead to a migraine or not. Basically when I woke up I felt a bit off and took a Maxalt wafer. I functioned fine for the next several hours, then in the afternoon at work I started getting waves of tiredness and sore eyes. These spells often came with dizziness. It happened three or four times over the course of the afternoon. I felt this overwhelming heavy headedness and my eyes felt strained, which is not uncommon at the start of a migraine. Then (miraculously?) it would go away again and I was fine until an hour or so later when it would happen again. I'm having a quiet night at home and resisting all chocolate, alcohol or anything else that might trigger a full migraine.