Too Many Distractions

I'm so distracted today.

I had a spur of the moment lunch date with the boy, which made me not want to come back to the office, and now I can't stop thinking about it.

There have been several divisive discussions at work today.

I've been asked to do an evaluation of another employee, which is time consuming and requires careful thought.

I've also been asked to be part of a committee to review the evaluation process and improve it.

And we've been having a heated debate about the "correct" process for developing and documenting our software, which in a way also involves our evaluation process.

On the surface, everyone is being diplomatic, but underneath, people are frustrated and bitter.

And they keep talking to me about it, and I keep zoning out because I don't want to deal with it, and I keep thinking about my lunch date because it was the highlight of my day, and my stomach hurts because I've eaten way too much chocolate and not much of anything else, and because of all that, I can't seem to get any real work done.

Just one of those days I guess.

Thank gods it's only a 3-day work week. Hooray for Thanksgiving and a 4-day weekend!

But that brings me to another distracting thought...

The boy has invited me to have Thanksgiving dinner with his family. I'm a little freaked out about it. I can't decide what to bring or what to wear. His family is huge, he's got a zillion cousins, aunts, and uncles, etc., and they're all very close. This will be the first time I'll meet his mother. It seems a little too soon for all this.

The week after Thanksgiving, I'm going to be the boy's date to his army unit's Christmas party. Another big event with lots of people I don't know.

Somehow I need to stop thinking about all this, and find a way to block out all my coworkers who are distracting me, and just focus in on my own work. Somehow...

I'd rather just be at home, alone with my thoughts. :\

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Edit:

And minutes after I posted this, I was asked to do ANOTHER peer evaluation.

[sigh]