Lea and Victor came over tonight and i had a weird reaction later in the night — we were having a good talk about many things when i got a migraine, which rarely happens — light sensitivity which i still have a little of and brutal pain. After they left I threw up and laid down in the dark and now I’m ok pretty much though I feel liek a truck hit me. whole process took about two and half hours. Not typical at all but mostly surprised that it came and went so fast. has this happened to anyone?

Here’s a welcome new development:

Turkey invades Iraq…or more precisely, Kurdistan.

If you need more background on why this has some added tension to it:

Here’s a short article on the current state of Kurdish autonomy in Iraq.

More complications and strains on an already strained situation. The demands of Kurdish nationalism have long been the least reported aspect of the Iraq debacle, in my view; this may bring a lot of the underlying tensions to the fore, not only in Iraq but in the whole region.

The only good point of all this is that it’s kinda fun to say “Iraq debacle” out loud over and over really quickly. Go ahead. You know you want to. Don’t worry about what your co-workers will think.