I feel like it might be a bad sign that I'm now thinking of my to-do list less like an agenda and more like a trolley problem

It’s all about putting out fires. Things that are just smoldering end up with those high school class notes you swore that you had to keep.

We all share your pain. Not that it helps, of course.

Said to my boss last week that at this point, I know I'm dropping some of the balls I have in the air. Just trying to make sure the ones that fall are, you know, rubber and not glass

I imagine mine as a juggling dilemma: some of the balls are rubber - & will bounce when I drop them - whereas others are glass…

Mine became much more manageable when I stopped putting things on it.

Yeah. Speaking from experience, not a good stage, especially as you know the people on the tracks

It has ever been thus

It’s all triage, all the time here 🙃

I felt that from here!

Hmm. I *do* like the idea of tying some of my tasks to a set of railroad tracks ...