Not all problems are equal. For example, if you have an arrow through your head, that’s the bad kind. If you have too many customers to handle in a timely manner, that’s the good kind. Another good kind of problem is a problem you didn’t know you had. Let’s say that the back of your head was especially ugly but you were otherwise okay looking. That wouldn’t be a problem to you because you wouldn’t necessarily know it. (BOCTAOE). Then some idiot would say, “What’s wrong with the back of your head.” And suddenly that’s all you’d be able to think about.
Yesterday I went to a speech pathologist because I thought I had one problem (speaking). I left with two problems. As I was practicing saying “Many more men on the moon” she squinted at me and said, “Did you know your face twitches?”
“What?”
“Your face twitches. Sometime your eyes twitch and sometimes your face twitches next to your nose.”
I immediately asked my fiancée if she had ever noticed my face twitching. She said, “Yes, you’ve done that since I’ve known you. You do it when you’re thinking.”
“And you never mentioned it???”
The only thing that could have made this problem worse is finding out that it happens “when I’m thinking.” Because it turns out that I think fairly frequently. So now I have to think whatever I’m thinking while at the same time thinking about my face twitching because I’m thinking.
And that’s why this blog entry sucks.