Bit of Ivory

I’ve found myself gritting my teeth lately.
This is not a good thing.
It means I’m stressed. I hate being stressed. Hopefully it’s just a
beginning-of-school-I’m-going-to-be-really-busy kind of a thing. I
usually feel this way at the beginning of a semester; I look that my
course load and all my syllabi and think “I am never going to be able
to do this.” But then as the semester goes on, I realize that I really
do have time to get things done, and that I don’t have to do all that
work in two days (although I usually end up doing it in two days
anyway; that’s why I’m a CQoP). That’s what usually happens.
But I’ve never gritted my teeth before.
And now my jaw hurts.