FWIW, tommy, I think at this point it's easier for ita to list the migraine treatments she hasn't used.

I recently finished reading Melanie Thernstrom's The Pain Chronicles which delves into the conundrum of chronic pain and why it resists modern medicine so well.

She describes ketamine procedures, which basically puts you into a coma for several days. The idea is, sort of like ECT, it interupts/resets the pain circuits. It's a dangerous procedure, and it's not been proved to be effective for many, to boot.

There's some intriguing work being done with fMRI, that lets pain patients watch a scan of their own brain and concentrate on raising/lowering pain at will, which the researchers theorize trains the brain into rerouting inappropriate pain circuits.

It's not a self-help book, but one that deals with the history and theory and applied science of pain -- I highly recommend it.

Yes. Just be thankful you don't have my boss, who told more than one colleague that I threatened to leave if I didn't get promoted or a raise (not exactly what I said) and then told me that I wasn't being professionally savvy.

Hahaha! Why so fucking crazy, bosses???

I think there is something that makes bosses crazy, when they get to be bosses.

The designer who is working on the next show is driving up today, for one night only, and no one told me until just now. When I sent him an email asking him when he was coming up.

I think there is something that makes bosses crazy, when they get to be bosses.

Uh oh! I totally was invited to Boss Day brunch last Friday! Which was hilarious to me. But, free breakfast! I should check in with my people to see how my level of craziness has changed since I got put in charge of them.

I feel so much better after showering. Should have done that sooner.

Obama is going to appear on Mythbusters.

I'm sure he'll just use the appearance to spread socialism.

I think there is something that makes bosses crazy, when they get to be bosses.

Direct reports?

Actually I think it's the in-betweenness. Managing people is tough, but when you're in middle management you're getting yelled at by people up the org chart all the time.

So it's sort of like a doctor sitting down beside a patient and attempting their best bedside manner, while somebody stands behind them punching them in the head.

Then again, this may just be my experience in law firms.

What is the old saying? That employees get promoted until they reach their level of incompetence?

Really, I think it's just the Peter Principle. People get promoted because they are good at their jobs, until they are in jobs they are not good at. I think most crazy bosses are insecure managers.

Peter Principle xpost!

I cite once again this year's Ig-Nobel winner for the Management Prize:

MANAGEMENT PRIZE: Alessandro Pluchino, Andrea Rapisarda, and Cesare Garofalo of the University of Catania, Italy, for demonstrating mathematically that organizations would become more efficient if they promoted people at random.