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Yesterday morning I woke up to a massive Migraine headache, it didn’t seem to want to go away till after suppertime.

It hurt like hell too. the worst head ache I have ever had, at least until this morning.

Around 2am I woke up with pain shooting down the back of my head down my neck, and my temples felt like they were in a vice. No matter how much cradling in my arms I did or packing the pillows around my head I did, it was futile.

I would drift in and out of sleep because I was awaken by the pain and then fall asleep from exhaustion and wake up again, and so on. A vicious cycle went on until it was time to get up for work.

There was no way I could go in to work in this condition. I even had to turn off my computer because the fan, although not a loud one, was actually too loud. The windows were blacked out because it was still dark outside, thankfully. But that was short lived later in the day, so I wrapped myself in blankets and pillows.

If that wasn’t enough, the grounds people decided it was a good time to mow the lawn. Mow by my window OVER AND OVER AND OVER again! Either they knew I was in major pain from the migraine, or the blade on that mower was so dull, they had to make multiple passes.

So here it is now just after 4pm, the headache is finally gone, I lost a days pay and now I’m in a pissy mood for it.

Must be the weather huh?

How was your day?

Even though I haven’t actually moved out of Canada, it sure felt like it the other day.

There were five cooks on the line at work and four of the five were Chinese. I felt so Alienated. They were talking away and not one English word was spoken. I just continued to work at my job and just kept saying to myself, “Lets get this day over with.”

Then later on four of the five cooks decided to share dinner and eat. I was not one of them, I was not even asked or offered. Nice huh?

I just continued to work away. I felt like I was no longer in my own country. Maybe I should move back to Canada and get a better job. A better one that I won’t feel so used.

It seems like as long as I don’t speak Chinenglish I’m not any use. I say this because, while I work away in pain from my tennis elbow and do my job despite of the pain, the Chinese guys get pampered.

I’m not saying they get catered to, but for example; Here I am, in a position that causes me great pain. Pain from lifting and twisting my arms causing the Tennis Elbow to get inflamed and cause some pretty nasty pain. Then there is this NEW Chinese cook that was hired on recently to work the Graveyard Shift with the rest of us. This NEW Chinese cook was always getting very sleepy halfway though his shift. He would go on about how hard it was for him to stay awake and how sleepy he was.

Some of you may already know that I wanted to be placed on the Garde Manger position for several reasons, mainly the one that would involve me not being in so much pain because there’s not a lot of things that would involve lifting and twisting of the arms, the others are because it’s something I would actually enjoy, and think I would be very good at.

Well, didn’t they go and move MR. Sleepy Chinese Cook to that position because he was always too sleepy to work the Line at night. It wasn’t because he was bad at working the line because he was the first one that did pretty good for his first few days there. That really got to me and I immediately started a job hunting campaign. Unfortunately, it’s not going very well. But I still have my fingers crossed.

So I figure if I get another job, I’ll be back in Canada, have better hours, have a life again, and get back to my side projects, and also start posting them fun games again.

Yup, I’ve been thinking about doing the ‘Friday Night Flip Off’ again, but with a new name, and also the ‘WTF Is That?’ game. The only thing that’s keeping me from them is the current job.

I wish I could just win the Lottery and get this all over with. I really, really do!

HOLY COW!

I was in pain all frigging night from this damn Tennis Elbow.

It felt like my arms were about to fall off. The pain was very unbearable at some points that I had to just stop what I was doing and cross my arms.

I could actually feel my heart beating in them and with every beat there was the sharp pain.

This is just another reason why I need another line of work, this pain gets worse each day that I work at my present job. I don’t know what I’ll do if I don’t get this new job, I really don’t.

There were times last night that I just wanted to walk out of there and come home. The pain was that intense.

I popped about 6 ibuprofen in the 8 hour shift that I worked and they really didn’t help, well they probably did by reducing the pain from what it would be if I didn’t take them, but the pain was still strong.

Now that I’m home the pain is going away, THANK GOD!

Having really bad tennis elbow and doing a job that involves a lot of lifting and twisting of the arms is not the greatest combination in the world. It gets fucking painful!

Nah, that doesn’t sound as good as it did in my head at the time. It was supposed to be like that song, “I Woke up this Moooorning!”

But anyway I woke up at noon, an hour before my Alarm was set to go off, because of some major cramping going on. So I did my thing on the can, I won’t go into details, but jeepers! All of a sudden I started to feel really shitty, no pun intended.

My ears started ringing, my guts were trying to burst out like the Alien did with Kane on the movie Alien. Then about half an hour later, I started feeling like somebody started using me like a punching bag.

I can’t believe how quickly this bug got complete hold on me. I tried to lay down and get some rest, but it seems that if it isn’t the getting up to run to the bathroom, it’s having to get up to blow and wipe the snot out of my nose.

The aches and pains seem to be worse while I’m laying down, so I’ll pop in here and share my misery with you all.

I had Friday through Tuesday off and today I was to start work at 4:30pm, but I made the call t o let them know I was in no shape to go in. I was actually thinking about going in anyway, but chances are I would have had to come back home anyway, so I never bothered. My back, calves in the legs, shoulders, neck, and stomach all ache really something awful right now. The only thing *yet* is that I’m not throwing up.

I’m going back to the futon…no wait, to the bathroom.