Busy.

Life as a grown-up is even busier than life as a college kid.  I leave for work every morning at 6 and don't get home until 5:30.  Working such long hours is exhausting in itself, not even counting the migraines.  Unfortunately I've had to take pain medicine like it's candy in order to keep up with all my work and all my ninth-graders.  I'm a little concerned that I'm going to end up with a rebound headache and have to be hospitalized again.  When you take medicine for migraines often (even Advil) over a long period of time, the brain sort of rewires itself and doesn't respond to any medication at all.  Then the only way to get out of rebound is to take lots of really strong pain medicine (like morphine) to "break" the headache or find a preventative that works.  Finding a preventative that works is a lot harder while on rebound, though, because the headache isn't very responsive to medication.  In other words, the elves learn your tricks and come up with new plans to do what they want to do.  They're clever little guys.  Then the only way you can get them back to normal is to knock 'em out real good.