It's the Little Things... And the Big Ones

This tweet I saved a couple weeks ago sums it right up, doesn't it? For those of you who have trouble viewing it, it's a tweet from mid-July, 2020 by comedian Adam Conover, stating, "Gentle Reminder: Folks can care about important social issues AND frivolous distractions simultaneously. Most do, in fact. It keeps us sane."

It sure does.

I mean, today alone, before 3PM, I've thought consciously about the following:

• Whether I should get out of bed now (at 7:30) or just in time for my ten o'clock Zoom therapy session (I ended up splitting the difference at 8:30)
• "Thank god the temperature outside went down some!"
• Getting the milk out of the milk box before the temperature goes back up
• Making sure the coffee and the toast were done at the same time
• Making a meme about melatonin and posting it
• Working out some scheduling issues with my pod
• Checking on my MyTribe Tribespeople
• Worrying about the Post Office and kids in cages
• Sending a note to my kids' new pediatrician, suggesting that she approach Lizzy from a concrete, scientific, measurable standpoint 
• Working on the article I'm writing for my not-school job for 15 minutes
• Complaining about the world at large (especially people who Just Don't Get It™) and my therapist telling me that's totally normal under the circumstances
• Writing on Facebook about how I'm supposed to cut myself a break about these things
• Getting pissed off at people who Just Don't Get It™ (especially the WhatAbouters© and the ButMahRightsers©/MasksCauseHypoxia-ers© and more especially the BLM-are-thugs-ers©)
• Remembering that it's okay to get pissed off at these people
• Unfollowing/Snoozing/Blocking assorted people who Just Don't Get It™ (and in a few cases, reporting their posts for mocking victims, false news, or even threatening a public official)
• Fretting about my school year job as it's for a school district and It's All Very 2020 Out There™
• Making lunch
• Fretting about my kids in school as it's distance learning and It's All Very 2020 Out There™
• Checking on my MyTribe Tribespeople
• Wondering which Squeenix game I should (re)play next, as I'm not feeling the Final Fantasy 90210 I (re)started a few weeks ago.
• Adding a manual back massager to my amazon wish list
• Working on the article I'm writing for my not-school job for 45 minutes
• Making up with an internet friend as in the light of day, it seems we Both Get It Just From Different Angles™ and apologies were made
• Making a new internet friend I know I can agree with because of our mutual friends
• Writing this post

Seven and a half hours. And I'm not done. Not by a long shot.

Case in point, just before I hit the Publish button, I got a call saying our department meeting for my school-job (scheduled for Wednesday) has been postponed but we will see the meeting members on Thursday for our other thing (in-service training, online).

Something else to think about...