04 June 2006

Number Sixteen: Develop minor - but annoying- ailments

Failing to acheive the drama - and resulting sympathy - created by Number Twelve, I have developed a vast range of minor flaws in my physical make up over the course of the past month. This can be anything from a clicking wrist - which of course would be my right (mouse) hand - incredibly itchy ingrowing hairs on my legs, and a clicking ear which is set off EVERY TIME I BREATHE IN (which, as you can imagine, is rater annoying at 2 in the morning when trying to find yet another word to substitute for "linguistics", "morpheme", "composition" etc...)
I can't work out whether these are brought on by stress, or whether stress merely makes them noticible, but given that they are interrupting my working patterns (!) it seems only right to derive their cause and thus spend time fiddling around with tweezers/cotton buds/piles of books/google etc in an attempt to find their remedy.