| December 27,2002 - My short attention span |
| Dear Friends, I have begun to realize that I have a very short attention span. I don't know if it's because of my fantabulosity or if I suffer from attention deficit disorder. Yes, even as a child JOHNNYLEEN was always talking in class and getting snippy little comments from teachers on the back of his report cards about his inability to keep his mouth shut. Why even in graduate school one of my professors said, "That's it JOHNNYLEEN! I'm going to have to separate you from your friend, J., because you talk too much in class." Isn't that embarassing? I mean after all, I was 23 years old! Anyway, my short attention span came into play over Xmas. I had gone with my mother, my sister, my niece, and my nephew to an evening church service where everyone sang hymns and listened to Bible readings. Now mind you, JOHNNYLEEN is not into ceremony of any sort (unless it's to bestow honors on himself), so I was a bit fidgety the whole time. They had passed out candles to all of us that we were to light at the end of the service. JOHNNYLEEN immediately began pretending that his unlit candle was a gigantic white crayon. I scribbled waxy marks all over the church program. Then I beat time to the Xmas carols with it like a conductor's baton. After that I noticed that the candle was really quite pliable, so I started pinching it into different shapes. On Xmas day I left my sister's house and went back to the hotel I was staying in. I took a nice soak in the hot tub and then jumped in the swimming pool. Once again boredom got to me and so I pretended I was a senior citizen doing water aerobics. Every now and then I giggled to myself or made loud chortling noises. Thank goodness I was the only one in the pool room! It would really have been quite embarassing if someone had been observing me, n'est-ce pas? Dear Friends, you can only imagine what a chaos my professional life is given such a lack of ability to focus. Meetings that are longer than 15 minutes cause me to start rolling my eyes, making faces at the other participants, scribbling on pieces of paper, and joggling my legs up and down. And of course I feel compelled to interrupt everything with observations about my own fantabulosity. A typical meeting would be something like this: PRESENTER: So let's go over the task list. JOHNNYLEEN, have you finished testing that latest software patch? JOHNNYLEEN: Yes, I did. Did I tell all of you that I'm going off to Germany next week? PRESENTER: Yes, we know all about it. What were your findings? JOHNNYLEEN: The software was fine. Can I bring you all back prezzies? What would you like? I love travelling and will think about all of you while I'm away....NOT! PRESENTER: We appreciate it. Now then let's talk about blah, blah, blah. JOHNNYLEEN: May I go get some coffee? See, being fantabulous does have some drawbacks! Next entry Previous entry Go to diary entries Go back home |