Overwhelmed
I'm having trouble keeping up with LiveJournal. I'm overwhelmed by work these days - not in a bad way, just in an "I must use my whole brain all day to keep my department spinning and headed in the correct direction, and every time I think I might be able to take a five minute break from anything one of my staffers shows up in my office with a question and dear lord why do you all have questions all the time! Why are there so many of you?!" way. And when I get home, between the summer Torah reading schedule I'm on and the work I'm doing for the synagogue, I feel like I barely have time to breathe. There are several of you to whom I owe phone calls and e-mails and lunch dates, and several more of you who are putting up interesting LJ entries, but I get here maybe once a week and it seems silly to reply so long after a post.
All this is by way of saying: if you are reading this, I love you, and am paying attention to the things that are going on in your life, and miss you, and while I am not drowning, it's sort of taking all of my energy to keep treading water without flipping out, and I think in September things will calm down a little, and I'll have time to ask someone for a raft so I can take a break without getting out of the water.
Sigh. And now I have to go to work. I really need a vacation.
All this is by way of saying: if you are reading this, I love you, and am paying attention to the things that are going on in your life, and miss you, and while I am not drowning, it's sort of taking all of my energy to keep treading water without flipping out, and I think in September things will calm down a little, and I'll have time to ask someone for a raft so I can take a break without getting out of the water.
Sigh. And now I have to go to work. I really need a vacation.