Burnout
I am so stressed out right now. I must be - how else do I account for one of the worst kinks in my neck ever (which still hasn’t fully loosened up almost a week later), the soreness in my jaw from clenching it all day, the weird twinge my left ear seems to be performing this week, the headache I had as the long work day wore on, and the general feeling of having no gas in the tank. I felt so fried today that I did something I almost never do - allow myself to take a vacation day. The idea came to me at about four in the afternoon - I simply did not feel like I would be up to going into work tomorrow.
Once I got home, I quickly walked the dog, and then parked myself on the couch to watch some TiVo. I didn’t make it through one 15-minute episode of Sealab 2021 before I was in R.E.M.
I’m going to go read…and pass out again.