there's a song that will linger forever in our ears

Remind me never ever to get a tooth pulled in order to save (potential) future hassle. This is the fifth day since the extraction, and the first day I've been able to get by with only a single painkiller. (Even if I didn't manage to make it as far as the gym.)

Before the tooth-pulling, I was having a wee bit of a nervy breakdown for about two weeks... which I rolled over and turned into a holiday, since not being able to concentrate and fretting about not being able to concentrate just makes a bad spiral worse - and it's not like I'd had two weeks off together in quite some time.

The combination of these two things, though, leaves me behind in everything. Now is a time of feeling panicked, isolated, and unable to deal with the mess of things I need to juggle to catch up.

Ah, well. Maybe someday I'll get on top of things for more than two heartbeats at a time.