seems like i'm going to lose a full day due to a migraine that knocked me out last night...

it's been roughly a year since my last migraine - i had some headaches in the last apartment from the shs, but they weren't migraines - and this wasn't like those migraines, because i didn't have an aura. it was really pretty weak, as far as migraines go. but, i'm clearly in the hangover stage at this point, and it's hard to describe a 12 hour headache that knocks you out using other terms.

by now, the caulking around the windows should be cured, and it's certainly had a positive effect, primarily in keeping out the smell from next door. there's a kind of background pepper-y smell in my apartment that i can follow down the street that i think is particulate in origin, but i cook with a lot of pepper, and the reality is that it's the same smell i get from opening my cupboard, so i can't be sure. i'd have to take all of the pepper out of the house for a while to test.

the family upstairs seems to be gone for the weekend, and the smokey smell seems to have cleared out with them, indicating that the smoke is in fact coming from the kid. i'm still building a correlation, but the uncertainty is declining dramatically. it doesn't seem like this is the cause.

i had a stiff neck this week from sitting in bed too much and may have just been a little overwhelmed. i'll keep an eye on this. the most likely cause is the pollution, but i can't jump to conclusions, yet - let's see if they end up recurrent or not. and, i'll point out again that there was no aura...

for now, i'm going to just try again: i'm going to get something to eat and see if i can get to working on the court documents afterwards.