I think I have an ear infection.
To add insult to injury (or, to illness?), I googled the symptoms, and realized that I was doing many of the things people with ear infections often do…tugging on them, rubbing them to try to relieve the pressure, etc…but! The people who do these things? Children. And babies.
I am apparently handling this the way people who have yet to acquire language handle this.
Twenty-seven is shaping up to be a good year!