My Spider-Sense Is Tingling!

Still in crazy workmode.

The interesting thing for me about this recent crush of work – Brought on, last week, by a larger-than-usual workload mixed with spending hours and hours at the animal hospital with a dog who turned out to have a corneal ulcer (He’s okay now), and this week by trying to write ahead of deadlines because we’re traveling at the end of this week for a friend’s wedding – has been finding out just how much I can get done before I feel like I’m beginning to lose my mind a little. I feel like I’m getting a better handle not only on my own mental limits – No jokes, please – but also recognizing when I’m approaching them.

I was having a conversation last week about the idea that the body could inform the mind – that you could literally feel a physical reaction to something before you’re consciously aware of it, intellectually – and, perhaps because of that conversation or perhaps because that person turned out to be right, I’ve been hyper-aware of the ways in which my body is telling me to take breaks, instead of just sitting at the keyboard tying to get things done. Whether it’s feeling thirsty, or the back of my neck beginning to stiffen up, it’s like getting warning signs that I should stop writing and wander about, try to stretch muscles again and distract my brain from constantly thinking well this is a potential subject and what if you wrote about that and has anyone said this yet and so on and so on.

Of course, it might just be age. I am, after all, an old man these days.