24-hour gnats have it good by comparison...

This may be related to the whole Mystery Tired™ thing, but since Christmas I've had the attention span of a 24-hour gnat if I'm lucky. I can't focus on anything for more than thirty minutes, and that's if I'm lucky. My days are passing in a blur, and I honestly can't tell one from the other unless there's a specific event which allows me to differentiate them.

I can't read. I'll sit down with a book, and get maybe ten pages in before my attention wanders. I can't write. I sit down at the computer, and my mind goes elsewhere. I start a sentence and forget what I was going to say. LJ posts take six times as long to compose, and when I'm not posting something random (rants about illiterate twits, shiny links), I actually have to make a point-form outline about what I want to write about so I don't forget.

I've had to write down everything I want to do, almost to the point of writing down simple things like brushing my teeth. It's not quite that bad, but last night I got distracted three times before I got around to it. I will go into a room with the intention of doing something, and completely forget what it was in the time it takes me to get there. I have to bring my little "to-do" notebook with me in order to get my chores done.

I put a load of laundry in the dryer last night (I think it was last night. It may have been yesterday morning). By this morning, I'd completely forgotten about it. I only remembered because I did another load of laundry, and upon opening the dryer I discovered the previous one: "Hey! I washed my socks! Cool." >_<

I have trouble focussing on what people say. Half a minute later, I'll have forgotten the exact wording of someone's sentence. Sometimes my attention wanders as they're speaking, which is really embarrassing.

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And I forgot what I was going to say. Case in point. I think that you get the main thrust of my post, anyway.

It's highly frustrating, in any event.

*checks to see if Hell has frozen over*

This is a good news post, actually.

There was a kerfuffle I meant to post about, wherein the National Pork Board (in the US) threatened to sue an online breastfeeding activist due to the slogan on one of her t-shirts. The t-shirt read: "The Other White Milk."

However, the National Pork Board has in fact not only withdrawn their original suit, but they have gone out of their way to right the wrong they committed. I am impressed.

There is hope for Big Business after all. Kudos to the NPB for doing the right thing the right way.