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I've come up with a word for how I feel lately:

Scatterbrained

Not like I can't think, but like I'm thinking about too many things and unable to concentrate to completion on any single one. I will be in the middle of a conversation and a thought will occur to me and my brain will flit off in that direction. And this has been going on all day, for several days.

Maybe it has to do with having too much on my plate, maybe too little sleep. Both are the case at the moment. I need a brain vacation, then I need some brain calisthenics to tone it back up, so I can feel like I really listen in conversation, really finish memos and tasks at work, really finish chores at home.

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Only a few more days til the Hundredth Anniversary Dinner. Thank God. I am totally fed up with people who don't pay, or don't rsvp, or don't let me know what they want for dinner til well after the deadline. Including one person who, I found out this afternoon, wanted salmon instead of chicken, but we gave the plate count to the caterer this morning. If it turns into a "thing" she can have my salmon.

And with the snipey little interpersonal politics of people who want to sit with one another, or refuse to sit on the same side of the room as one another. It's like a wedding.

After publishing a deadline of May 23, and holding a private deadline of May 31, we are still getting calls *today* wanting to squeak under the line. No. I'll take your name and you can check back in case we have a cancellation.