Friction

I’ve been trying to introduce friction into my life.I’ve spent the last maybe eighteen months in a totally frictionless zone and it’s led me down a totally frictionless slide of saying Yes to things and now I’ve got altogether way too many things going on. I woke up in the middle of the night the other night because Sam punched her nightstand (“someone was coming at me in my dream”) and then I wound up just lying awake in the dark for 90 minutes with my eyes darting pretty much all over the place and my mind doing a full-on floor routine over everything I was trying to keep in my head for the following day. Waking nightmare-type stuff.I put my Garmin away in the drawer of my desk. I’m back to a quartz Timex that I got at Sears in like 2007. Sears doesn't even exist anymore and I’ve had to replace the battery precisely once. When I lie on my stomach with my arm wedged up under the pillow I can hear it tick as I fall asleep. It has an Indiglo backlight but no date function. When my…