Is passion a good thing?

Man, am I preoccupied with this SCEV project or what!?
This morning I put an eggplant and some garlic in the oven with the buzzer on for an hour. When the buzzer went off I was deeply involved in an SCEV phone discussion. I ended the call and went back to making the notes that I had been doing beforehand. I worked on, occasionally thinking: ‘gosh, that’s a great smell, our neighbours must be cooking something delicious for lunch’. Until the penny dropped and I erupted up from my desk to find a burnt, shrunk offering in our oven. When we are living together in the ecovillage, please only allow me in the kitchen under strict supervision!