but is there something natural I can do?

Cold compress at the back of the neck?

Caffeine?

...of course, I'm not one to avoid taking drugs if I"m in pain. Except the times that it doesn't occur to me to take drugs. Like, sometimes if I'm all muscle-achey and then hours later i'm all "Oh, I guess I could take painkiller and that would help, eh?"

That sounds nice, but I'm at work. I tried this thing I found online and it seemed to somewhat work! Press the indentation at the base of your skull and at the same time press on either side of your nose (near the eye socket) with your other hand. Increase the pressure on the eye sockets. Do it for 3 minutes. It might be in my head, but I do feel a little better. The tangerine I'm eating might also be helping.

ETA: Initial comment was to David's cold compress suggestion. I don't want to do caffeine either... Though I'd really love to!

Oh, ouch, poor Glam. If you google "acupressure headache" you get a ton of references to various places (mostly different points on your hand) to press and prod and squeeze to alleviate the pain.

Speaking of hospitals...I'm going to be a total bitch for a minute, and not the good kind.

I dunno... telling the media to pack their nosy selves up and get out of the way of all the sick people and all the healing people sounds like a good use of bitchery to me.

"research orgasm"

I just want to know if the "reasearch" was a verb or an adjective?

Glam, also try drinking a large glass of water. If you're dehydrated, that can give you a headache.

One of my people is complaining about teaching a few classes (not courses, individual classes - 6 at most, spread throughout the semester) because "we never had to do that before." And she thinks she should be paid extra. I pointed out that these classes appear in her job description so there will be no extra money. She complains about having to do this extra work until I finally point out that since these have been in her job description for 5+ years, maybe she should think of it as having been paid to do nothing for those years.

Now she's upset, but I'm no longer frustrated about not getting the point across.

I have found that applying pressure to the meaty area between my thumb and forefinger will alleviate a headache long enough for me to find some aspirin. Or maybe it's that the new pain in my hand distracts me from my headache.

It sounds like the customer we just had who wants my company to pay him for the work he'll need to do to use the program in a way that works instead of the way he was using the program, which wasn't working. "Your program is flawed! Compensate me!" "I showed you the process that gives you the result you want, the program is not flawed." "I don't want to do it that way!" "Tell the developers to put it in a future version, here's the link." "I shouldn't have to do that! Research this and get back to me on how to do it right!"

Yeah, I'll tell my supervisors that I can't help the other people in queue because you want specialty work done by a technician you got to instant message with for free.

I want a flip top head I can scoop my brain out of when I get a headache.