I slept through the migraine but woke up today moving in slow motion.

A post-migraine hangover leaves me feeling weak and sluggish and with the slight remnants of the headache as if the migraine thinks it’s an empty bottle of booze and doesn’t want to be ignored now that it’s all gone. (Something like that.)

The pain hits when I do little things like lean over to pull on socks or bend down to put on and tie my shoes. It doesn’t hurt, it’s just a twinge, almost a memory of the pain which, since I slept through the worst, is especially annoying.

The results in school manifest as either a marked lack of interest in anything that goes on:

I’m not prepared for my next class. Sigh. Can’t be helped. That student just set fire to that other student. Sigh. Now I have to fill out paper work.

Or it manifests itself as permanent annoyance:

Student: Good morning!
Me: Shut the fuck up. 
(Note: the latter comment is more of a feeling than an actual expression.)

Today was minor annoyance at one student although, in my defense, when I checked on him he hadn’t written a single thing the entire class, so I made him stand until he caught up. When he didn’t catch up, I confronted him again and he said, rather timidly, that he didn’t have a pencil. If I’d been in permanent annoyance mode I’d have snapped and reminded him he was in his homeroom and should have easy access to pencil unless he didn’t have one in the school and no friends to borrow one. (That would have come out, though, as “Are you fucking kidding me?” as I walked away shaking my head, triggering more twinges of pain and more annoyance.) Instead I just told him to borrow a pencil from someone.

I got home and took a nap, which helped a little, but the feeling doesn’t go away until I have had  full night’s sleep. Even now I can feel twinges of the “hangover” which means it’s time for bed.