I left work about halfway through the day. A sharp pain was start­ing to develop on the sides of my head, and I was gen­er­ally sore all over. Even while chew­ing or swal­low­ing, there was a tremen­dous pres­sure from the head of my mandibu­lar condyle to the inner ear. Most likely, I was start­ing to run myself down; the last time I felt like this was after an all-night shift at the Office of the Superintendent of Bankruptcy, and I ended up run­ning a fever and miss­ing two days of work there. Shirley con­vinced me to take an extra strength Tylenol (with codeine), which is some­thing I rarely do. I’ve always believed in pay­ing atten­tion to the pain sig­nals that the body gives off.

Trolley and I, with the assis­tance of Aaron, moved a sig­nif­i­cant por­tion of chat­tel through the week, trans­lat­ing into late nights and mis­er­able days. Every pre­vi­ous night, I’d ver­bally con­sider sleep­ing in the next day know­ing how hard it would be, and as Trolley noted, I’d never end up doing so. Even this morn­ing I couldn’t sleep, so I got to work at ten past seven, more than half an hour early. It’s good to know that I was able to be stronger men­tally than phys­i­cally, some­thing that has always been dif­fi­cult for me to bal­ance. Usually it feels like my body is giv­ing out first, but after­wards, I real­ize that I could have han­dled more. This time, my body is actu­ally telling me that I’m over­worked. I think the key is con­vinc­ing myself that phys­i­cal dis­com­fort is just a tem­po­rary feel­ing that can be ignored.

It’ll all be worth it once I’m set­tled down, which will most likely not be until I get my closet doors installed. I’m replac­ing my white ones with mir­rors, and since the closet runs the entire width of the wall, they all need to be cus­tom sized. It’s the last thing that’ll be done before I really feel like I’m in my own home. The mir­rors should make the room look twice as big and appro­pri­ately darker. I got the quote today, and it’s just under two grand, tax in, includ­ing instal­la­tion. I decided to go ahead with it, since it’s actu­ally cheaper than I expected, so they should be arriv­ing in 6 to 14 days.

Next week is hair­cut, get­ting custom-fitted venet­ian blinds, Christine’s birth­day din­ner, and a lot of unpacking.