The Force of Habit
The observations of an undisciplined poet/writer.


Thursday, July 27, 2006  

*Twitch*

Today I had to take off from work, due to a pesky eye twitch and general fatigue from the last three weeks of really bad sleep and the stress of The Project From The Abyss.

While I survived The Boss From The Abyss for 15+ months, The Project From The Abyss is starting to make her look like a Care Bear next to, say, Hannibal Lecter. I didn't think it could be worse unless someone started pistol-whipping me on a daily basis, but I guess I was wrong.

So, for the last week or so I've been nursing a persistent right eye twitch, which I managed to develop in the last year or so of working late and weekends. It would appear occasionally, and then maybe only every hour or so on days that it showed up to work. Monday I went into work and this bugger started up every 5 minutes...on the train. I wasn't even at WORK yet.

And for the rest of the week, it just got worse--Tuesday it felt like my twitch had gotten it's own twitch. And by the end of the day, it was like my lower lid was having epileptic fits on my face. Not attractive.

What's even funnier (or sadder, you decide), is that on Wednesday, it started to twitch every time I thought of something I needed to do...I need to write that vendor back *TWITCH*...oh, I need to submit that invoice for-- *TWITCH*...crap, I didn't get to read those lay--*TWITCHTWITCHTWITCH*. It would also set off whenever I found a mistake while reading book layouts--which makes it hard, you know, to be an editor.

So this morning, I got up, showered, put on clothes, totally got ready to go to work, and then it happened. My LIP twitched.

And that, my friends, is when I called in sick.

posted by Flo~ | 1:22 PM
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