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I'm beginning this entry at 2:03 p.m. It's about something that happened anywhere from 2:01 p.m. to 2:02 p.m.

As I was trying to figure out how I could spend my last hour of my third week on the new job doing as little as possible, I got a little itch in my nose. I tried to scratch it, and as I pulled my thumb and index finger away -- they met in kind of a pinching formation just underneath the right nostril -- I learned the painful way that there was a previously attached nose hair between the pinching thumb and finger. I continued to pull away, and I experienced an excruciating jolt in front of my co-workers, with whom I obviously don't know well enough to share this story.

It hurt like hell. And my eyes are still watering at 2:08 p.m.