I Took Today Off

It was necessary, I think.

Matthew Maniaci
Thing a Day
Published in
2 min readMay 3, 2024

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A cat sleeping contentedly, its head facing the viewer.
Photo by Victoria Tronina on Unsplash

As I have described the past few days, it has been a good but exhausting week. I wrapped up a reporting cycle at work that took six weeks, which was the crown jewel of four straight months of hard-and-fast deadlines. And, after it was done on Wednesday, I spent Thursday slowly collapsing into a pile of half-conscious sludge.

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Matthew Maniaci
Thing a Day

I write about everything from my experience with mental illness to politics to philosophy. Much of my so-called "wisdom" is from Tumblr dot com. He/him/his.