The Middle

I can always tell when I need a vacation. Not the time when you just look out the window and want to be on a beach, I mean when you need a vacation. When it takes you twice as long as usual to do half as much work. When you can't remember something someone just told you because you can't focus. When you work hard and it just doesn't seem like enough. I'm there.
I've been working all day on getting ready for a meeting tonight. I keep getting distracted. My distraction is helping me to get other things done that also need attention, but it is not helping me get ready for tonight's meeting. It isn't a scary or horrible meeting. It is a meeting that requires lots of preparation and then hours of follow up tomorrow. So for the next three hours, I'll keep getting ready for this meeting and keep getting distracted and doing others things. Hopefully by the end of the day, I'll find myself in the middle...halfway between being overly prepared and forgetting everything I should have done.