Radio Free Anxiety
By now I'm familiar with the symptoms: mental fog, like my brain's not wearing its glasses; memory out the window; and sooner or later the inevitable headache.
Best I can figure, the catalyst is a meeting I have to go to tomorrow. I have no idea why it's triggering this level of stress, completely out of proportion, but there it is.
After today's meeting, I had a longish conversation with one of my colleagues; by the end of it I'd forgotten the beginning -- this became painfully obvious when I asked a question she'd already answered.
We were talking about daycare; she said her daughter works at a daycare center. She then told me the story of her grueling pregnancy; the long and the short of it was that her daughter grew up an only child.
So, I asked, what does your daughter do, is she in school.
"Ah, well, she works in a daycare center." Doh.
Short-term memory's never been one of my strong points, but at times like this I really feel like the village idiot. I used to console myself with the thought that I have an unusually good long-term memory. Last couple years, though, I've noticed this no longer seems to be true.
And I'm not even 40! My God...
9:03:50 PM 
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