Day 2
9:34am
Ended up going to bed early last night, feeling a bit rough and irritable. Much better today, though. The restlessness is quite annoying – before, if I was waiting for a job to finish or waiting for a kettle to boil or something, I’d go out and smoke. Now I just hover and fidget and annoy everyone. A workmate suggested I get a stress-toy thing to fidget with, but soon learned the folly of attempting to help when I asked if I could make one out of his eyeballs 🙂
On the whole, though, it’s ok. There’s no physical pain, there’s just mild annoyingness and an ever present feeling of disconnect.
4:35pm
It’s always handy when a poorly designed and undocumented Oracle implementation distracts you from your other problems for a day 🙂 The database is resurrected and I haven’t really thought about smoking. There’s been a couple of moments where I’ve been caught off guard – fired some instructions into a terminal and walked to the door before realising I didn’t have to do that – but I guess I’m lucky I work in a building where no-one else smokes. Being handed a lit one would probably catch me out because the habit is so ingrained. I’m getting there though.
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