I sometimes wake with a weird/bad neckache and ibuprophen only works sometimes. I started studying the vagus nerve: Vagus Nerve | MD-Health.com Everything talks about the extremes, over or under-active and new therapies like stimulating it to help with depression but I bet it is like the thyroid and there are degrees of things that can go wrong. TMI coming!!! Last week I was taking my blood pressure for my quarterly doctor's appointment, I keep it for a couple weeks before, the blood pressure cuff on my arm sends it up to unuseful levels, it is so painful (can you spell "excruciating"?); anyway I had a couple of high, 168/101 readings, went to the bathroom and it dropped to the mid 130's/80s. Thank you vagus nerve getting older, slightly wonky. . .

Oh, clutter! My "junk" room (front bedroom) is slowly getting emptied out. It and my understair closet are my last holdouts -- if you don't count my work area. I did get the work area started (since my previous year-long course is finished and my intermediate ongoing one is not a mess problem and my next course doesn't start until August) but I really need to work on the pile of papers, bills, magazines, "stuff" today and tomorrow. Fortunately my researcher is on vacation all next week so no point in hoping for emails/titillation from her or sending her any.