Thoughts a-racin'

Today I'm having another one of those days. The ones where I wake up in the morning and I have a thousand thoughts going through my head, and I can't stick with just one for more than a couple of seconds. This really takes a toll on my productivity, because when I'm trying to write or read something of importance, my mind starts to wander. To where I wish I knew. I'm not sure if it's just been the complete lack of sleep for the last 2 months as I've tried to make billable hours for work, or that I'm just becoming burnt out. I've even taken time to shut my door at work, look out onto the lake, and just push everything out of my head and just forget about everything even if for only a couple of minutes. Doesn't work. I see something that reminds me of the next things, and the next thing, and the next thing ad infinitum. It's hard to sleep when you've got so many things in your head. It's like a jukebox that has a hundred CDs in it, it's put on super-fast-forward and repeat. Honestly, I have started nearly 10 drafts of different posts that I wanted to write about today, but only got a paragraph finished before I had to move on to the next topic. I am writing something for a huge project, and days like this can set me back more than a day because I know better than to try and write on days like this because the thoughts I put down are even more disjunctive than this post.

However, I decided that since I've worked over 200 hours already this month, it was time for me to treat myself to a night out! I went out with a couple of friends to a great see-food restaurant, which seemed to help my concentration problem. Good company, good food, good fun. Although I was with friends from work, we talked about things other than work (sans the one quick question I had about a project). I was happy that I only drifted off once in nearly 2 hours, but I didn't feel bad because any time this particular topic is brought up in any conversation I always drift off to the same point.

BTW, I won my court case today! My first official win as a lawyer! The saying goes that a lawyer who represents himself has a fool for a client, but today was the one exception.

Something to take my mind off of whatever I need to take my mind off of:














Here's to tomorrow!

Cheers.