Your brain asks questions, so you reply, “I haven't been around much lately.” as soon as plans set in you want to do all the things you were offered before, that didn't seem particularly enchanting previously. I've been here before though, it's a self-fulfilled prophecy I've seen each moment before the moment I live out catches me, with a face, baffled, pretending it hadn't seen it coming, planned it coming, because that's the way I happen to sort things out.
It's easier to think while distracted, I'd much rather focus on a handful of sequence than distract myself from what's important.