I'm sitting in my office, my first day here this week, and I've had a tension headache since 9am. Just thinking about coming in today and catching up and dealing with the turmoil roiling around this place lately made my jaw clench so tightly I could have cracked a walnut. Now it's almost 6, I can't really see straight, and I am miserable. And so I start thinking, hmm, I should get another one of those hot rock massages like I got a month ago when I used that gift certificate from my birthday. And then I started thinking, I don't have $140 + tip to spend on such frippery, worth-every-penny though it might be. And THEN I started thinking, maybe I should take up a collection. Alms for the tense! Alms for the I-can't-even-relax-my-right-pinky-I'm-so-tense! Won't you help me, please?
But then I started thinking that I am an ungrateful whiner and I should be happy I even have a job and health insurance and a roof over my head and organic chocolate to eat and people who love me and... and... you know, all the stuff I have. Which doesn't include enough money to get a hot rock massage whenever I want to, but still.
So now I feel tense AND guilty. But if you want to take up a collection anyway, I won't stop you.
Posted by thevieve at February 23, 2006 5:47 PM