So I've realized that I have a weird neurological response to stress: I yawn.
This is not the first time it's happened. The worst moment for this disastrous stress-response is leading worship, especially at a new church. I have to do everything I can to stifle my yawns during the sermon or worse, the scripture. I like finishing my part early in worship, because it decreases my stress level and the yawning magically clears up. But heaven help me if I have to lead the offering or pray after the sermon. I can't stop yawning.
It happened to me again this morning but in a more suitable location: the library. It's not nearly so necessary to suppress said yawns when I'm in a room full of bleary eyed students too focused on their computers and books to notice me yawning incessantly. This week is going to be insane, it's like my body knows it doesn't get to sleep so it just yawns ahead of time as a warning, "Hey Anna... know what you're going to feel like Friday morning? Like this... yyyyaaaaawwwwwnnnnn. Yup, just like this yyyyaaaawwwnnnn." Irritating.
All that to say, If I'm ever yawning at you during an inappropriate moment: like armageddon, or World War III, please know I really do sense the gravitas of the situation and am yawning in response not out of lackadaisical carelessness.
Or if you can tell me how to learn a new anxious habit, and stop my yawns please speak up!
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