Look me in the eye and tell me

You know things are bad when the brief list you start jotting down of all the things you need to remember to do ends up taking the entire back side of the Starbucks bag that had the apple coffee cake slice you had for lunch, at 2:55 PM, when you suddenly realized you were starving because you hadn't eaten, and weren't in a place to get an appropriate meal, nor did you really have time because you had a 3 PM appointment. And yes, it was decaf.