Stress

I've been a bit stressed lately. My shoulders and neck are knotted, I'm sleeping fitfully, and I wake up much earlier than intended, so worried about some minor thing that I can't get back to sleep.

I'm not even sure what, precisely, I'm stressed about. Whatever bothers me in the wee hours of the morning is usually something small ("I didn't answer Nancy's mail! Oh No!") and easily fixed. The next morning it will be something else entirely ("I didn't water the potted plant! It's probably wilting!"). So I figure there's something unaddressed, something big, generating stress that leaks through in the guise of worry over these small things.

The little things have the theme of procrastination. They tend to be of the form "I didn't [something]". Perhaps my big unaddressed stress is overload, partly born of procrastination. Or perhaps it's unrelated: these are things I know how to do, while what I'm really worried about and haven't faced is "how am I ever gonna handle [something]".

Wish I could just go look it up. Google search "CJ's stress" and find out immediately. Oh well. Until I do find out, though, it'd be nice if I could get a bit more sleep!

Sweet memories

I just ate a small handful of Necco wafers. I can remember eating those when I was a child. I can also remember living just up the street from the Necco factory when I went to college.