Goodness, has life just been super-busy for everyone else? I've been a bit over my head lately. My day job is unbelievably busy and some days we have appointments scheduled until 6:30 at night or later. I'm taking some night classes while getting ready for some graduate school work, and it's finals time. My wife and I have a side business, Kansas Tees, and this is the busiest time of the year for us (business is down a little this spring, which is kind of a good thing. If we were as busy this year as we were last year, we would have to refuse some work). We're doing a fundraiser for Rebuilding Together soon, we helped with the parish golf tournament last weekend. The yard needs mowing, the dog needs a bath, the whole house is overdue for a top-to-bottom spring cleaning-- and I haven't even gotten to some of the kitchen remodel that's been three-quarters finished since August.

Phew.

That's the problem with the rat race.

In the end, we're all still rats.