Somewhat zombified

This past week was a struggle for me to get through. I don't think I can blame jet lag: I normally recover within a day or two. At night I feel tired but not sleepy. Last night I was looking forward to starting the weekend by sleeping in but ( I currently have a sore back and shoulder. )

I have some computer to-do's that I could get done with the awake-time I am ending up with but few that I trust myself to attempt in this state. At work I catch myself doing things like going to the kitchen to fetch my infused tisane when my mug had already been sitting right beside me on my desk. My body feels as tired as my mind so I am hardly eager to do physical chores instead. Working out is taking considerable willpower.

I am also somewhat stressed by ( barely keeping up with to-do's. )

Work is not too bad right now at least. I have been frustratingly unlucky regarding the effects of optimistic changes to hairy parts of the codebase but I am under rather lower pressure than some of my colleagues. Those supervising me appropriately understand that my success rate reflects what's reasonably achievable in the circumstances.