Generally speaking, a blog carnival is a collection of links to a variety of a blogs on a central topic. The Headache & Migraine Disease Blog Carnival has been created to provide both headache patients and people who blog about headaches with unique opportunities to share ideas on topics of particular interest and importance to us.

For the November 2008 carnival, we solicited submissions on the topic of the complex relationship between migraine disease and depression. Diana also welcomes entries of general interest to headache and migraine sufferers. Please continue reading for this month’s collection of posts.

Debbie presents her perspective on migraines with a poem and artwork, posted at Down the Rabbit Hole.

Kelly presents My Hospital Migraine Art posted at Fly With Hope.

James presents a collage of Migraine Art made into a video at the Headache and Migraine News Blog.

Jenny Mannion presents Art – Spiritual and Healing at Heal Pain Naturally and has an excellent review of artists and their effect on healing and spirituality.

Diana Lee presents Appealing Art Shown to Ease Pain posted at Somebody Heal Me.  She gives a great summary of research on how art has an effect on pain levels.  She also has one of my favorite paintings shown on the post!

Entries 

Posts that relate to the November carnival’s theme will receive preference. Entries on topics that are particularly useful, educational or inspirational for headache and migraine sufferers are also welcome. Posts may be submitted through the form on the carnival website or directly to me by e-mail.

The November carnival will be posted on Monday, November 10th right here at Pain in the Head.

If you’re unfamiliar with the concept of a blog carnival and would like to learn more, visit this link: Blog Carnival. You can get more information about the carnival at this link: Headache & Migraine Blog Carnival. Also, please let Diana (the Carnival Leader) know if you’d like to be added to the e-mail list for the carnival, if you’re interested in hosting a future edition or if you have suggestions for future themes.

Camping this past weekend at KOA in Wisconsin Dells was great.  The cabin was cozy, the people very friendly, and the weather beyond awesome.  It put a nice end to the summer season!  This is actually my favorite time of the year, with the trees turning colors and the air a bit chilly at night.  The trees just started to turn in our area and soon we’ll be left with the grey skeletons of branches.  Of course, not soon after those grey skeletons turn white in winter with all of the snow.  That’s fun too!

School has turned out to be manageable this semester.  My Monday night class is a lot of work and the four person team only has myself and one other person doing any work.  It sucks how inexperienced the other two guys are and I wouldn’t complain if this were an undergrad degree.  Master’s degree implies a level of knowledge on the applied level.  I shouldn’t have to teach people concepts that I learned during my Associate’s Degree schooling.

The new client at work has been good so far.  I am busy all day long and have very little time to goof off.  I’m learning a lot as well and finally applying my schooling to my job.  My previous jobs and clients were technical in nature but in reality all revolving around non-software engineering positions.  I’m finally designing applications and also implementing those designs.  Fun, yes, but exhausting.

My Grandather is coming up from Texas this coming weekend to visit mainly my parents, but also my brother and I.  He’s in the dark about me being gas, but he’s a smart guy and probably knows.  He knows Tazz is a friend at least and he’ll be with me when we go up this weekend.  I think it’s good that Tazz get to know my Grandfather a little bit since it explains a lot about my father. 

I’m hosting a carnival next month – topic is art inspired by migraines.  I’ll post more on it later.