Have you ever felt burnt out? Like your body was running on empty and you didn’t even have the strength to stand up, but had to keep going? And just when you thought you had a moment’s peace, you suddenly have something else to do? That is precisely how I feel this week.

As of late, my life has become a lot more hectic – as if it wasn’t hectic enough – it just seems that I have a hell of a lot more to do lately. While they are all things I love to do, they just seem to be getting harder.

For some reason, it seems that no matter how hard I try to get everything done, I somehow still have the same amount of things to do. Picture a juggler juggling three balls – and every five seconds, you throw him another ball, and then another, and another – get my drift?

This "juggling" is not only effecting me physically, but mentally as well. Physically, I am tired, dehydrated and unable to concentrate. Mentally, I have become cranky, short tempered and downright pissed off at everyone and everything – and there seems to be no end near – because every time I finish one project, another pops up. I feel like I should abandon my shirt and tie and simply wear a blue shirt with a big red "S" on it.

The worst part is whenever I do try to escape from reality – which is once in a blue moon, if I’m lucky – I have no place of refuge. And when I do find that one brief moment to even attempt to relax, escape, unwind, "veg out", you name it, I am suddenly reminded of reality by a sudden vibration on my left hip – my beeper that I must wear twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week that goes off at least twice an hour. Is there no escape?

Then there is the inherent problems associated with "juggling" – because statistically, even the world’s best juggler drops balls once in a while – and when that happens, therein lies the stress factor, because now I not only have to juggle a grillion different things, but I have to try and pick up the things I "dropped" without dropping anything else. Do you know how hard that is?

I am not saying that my life is harder than anyone else’s is. I am simply hoping that if anyone else is "juggling" as much as I am, here’s hoping it doesn’t get to you as bad as it’s getting to me, and here’s hoping you don’t drop anything.