We laughed, we got distracted; he was always extraordinarily generous with me.
"After the big plays, we got distracted mentally," the Jets' John Abraham said.
We got distracted by a nagging question of why the psychologists picked New York to unload the bad news.
We acclimated, we got distracted, the Oscars were coming up … but the fake "battlefield" was brought home to us, now real enough.
"We got distracted from the most important thing: hot, high-quality food at a great value at the speed and convenience of McDonald's," said Mr. Skinner, the chief executive.
"It is secure and we got distracted, we were, ah," said the pilot, followed by some unintelligible words and apparently the phrase, "never heard a call and we just... " Another recording, made by the cockpit voice recorder, is with the National Transportation Safety Board, which has not said if it will release a transcript.
In fact, this post used to be really really excruciatingly long, with pie charts and graphs and quotes from analysts along the lines of "We estimate the size of the 'too long didn't read' market at $6 million by 2013 …" but then we got distracted and just fed it into the TL DR summarization machine for your quick ADD-addled enjoyment.
We got distracted because right when I figured that out, "A Millie" came on and we turned it up.
Somewhere along the line we got distracted from these truths and are working to re-align with them.
And that is that, by going into Iraq, we got distracted from Afghanistan, we got distracted from hunting down bin Laden, we got distracted from dealing with the al-Qaeda havens that have been created in northwestern Pakistan... RUSSERT: But a vote for the war in Iraq, in your mind, distracted us from Pakistan and that could have led to the situation?
We got distracted from the real issue at hand: Suicide is largely preventable, and something we can each have a hand in changing.
