Saturday, 13 December 2003

Personal

How to kill a headache

A bad day: I woke with the knowledge that the headache from last night had evolved into a full-blown killer cold that would be with me all day. I needed a plan, fast. I needed an activity that would keep me occupied all day, but with little movement.

[Jigsaw]

And then I saw the jigsaw.

For a while it was the perfect diversion. But you know how, in completing a jigsaw, you always leave the sky 'till last? You maybe don't even do the sky 'cause you "know what it looks like"? Although the one jigsaw I own has no sky, it has its equivalent: about 60% of the picture is a curious shade of white. And for me there's no "I've done the picture-bit"; I have to complete what I started.

So I arranged the remaining pieces by order of their knobbliness (tell me I'm not the only one who does this?), and started the long process of finding a place for each piece one by one.

At that point, the jigsaw became a bigger headache that the one I was trying to shift. It may not be the best way to kill a headache, but I will complete the puzzle.

Posted by pab at 22:00