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I Need a Vacation

I feel a nervous breakdown coming.  I just feel it.  My boss, I think, is having one.  He’s sort of been out of commission for the past two weeks.  When a 60-year-old man is running around on barely any sleep, then is in the office the next day answering calls and talking to investors like it’s no big deal, I thought to myself, “Ok, I don’t know how he does it.  I’m about to keel over from exhaustion.”  Now he’s AWOL.  So that’s what happened.  He wasn’t able to deal.  

I am getting there.  Weekend jaunts to LA and Scottsdale aren’t going to cut it.  I’m adjusting to a new boyfriend who is free every single week night.  He says, “I don’t like to make plans when I have to work the next day.”  In contrast, I’ve got a weekly writing class.  I’m shepherding volunteers for Burning Man.  I’m helping with my b-school’s reunion.  I’m in a book club.  I have friends to cater to, family to spend time with.  I try to get around this by bulking people together, meeting as a group for happy hour or dinner.  But there are those who are a bit needy. They don’t understand why we can’t have one-on-one time.  I am going to lose it very very soon.
How do other people deal with this problem?

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