I am here.

But my mind is somewhere else.

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I often perform tasks with my mind’s eye pondering the next responsibility. There is no legitimate reason for me to consistently look ahead to the next to do, but I tend to default to this state of mind.

For example, when I’m standing at my computer at work as I plow through an assignment, I feel a jolt of impatience when a website is slow to load, or I misspell a word, writing “teh”…