Day 251: "Don't be like the rest of them, Darling."

Today (after waking up at 2 pm and then going to the store and making WHITE CHOCOLATE STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE - OMG DELICOUS), I did school work for my Master's degree and finally finished a whole class a week early - a class that'd I'd consistantly been about a month behind the whole time! >_< Haha! That teacher's gonna be shocked when she sees all my posts are up to date, and even ahead of date on one assignment. Sheesh.

While working all day, I rerealized how... unique (weird?)... I am. Abby and Katie and Marianna sit in one spot and focus on nothing but their task at hand, stopping only to have a quick tea or coffee or water and check their Facebook. And they can be like this for hours and hours, days on end.

And then there's me.

I read an article.
Then I turn on a song and start dancing.
Then I read another article.
Then I start talking to the article while I'm reading it, as if the writer of the article can hear me. Usually I'm insulting them. Unless I'm not, in which case I'm telling them we should be friends, 'cause they're way more clever than the average person.do
Then I listen to another few songs and sing along (or meow along, if I can't understand the words).
Then I start to write my reflection, all while squeaking to some new music I just found.
Then I watch one of the assigned Youtube videos, while doing a jig in my chair and talking to the people in the movie.
Then I break for a few swigs of Moscatel.
Then I read half a page, before searching something really random and unrelated on Google.
Then I write a little more, and get really into it, and end up writing three times as much as was assigned.
Then I sing and dance again.
Then I start to day dream about something.
And then I watch another assigned Youtube video.
Which makes me remember something I wanted to journal about.
And then I IM a friend.
And then I skip around the house and get some food.
And then I write another four pages on accident.
And read a little.
And meow-sing some more to a Justin Bieber song or a Monsters and Men song or an Amy Winehouse song. Or all three. Once I tried two at the same time open in different windows. It didn't work out well.

I look crazy to Abby and Marianna and Katie. But the thing is, I'm enjoy the HELL out of myself. I'm giggling the whole time and random thoughts that cross my mind and commentary I'm giving aloud on what I'm reading and watching. I have conversations in my head with random people about what I'm learning and usually end up laughing about them, too. I'm just so HAPPY. It's ridiculous. And, by being so happy, I get an amazing amount done in the end, with much higher quality and thoughtfulness, than had I sat here fully focused on the task in front of me.

I don't know WHERE I learned to be like this from. I'm not this way when I'm actually at school as a student (but man I AM this way when I'm at school as a teacher - haha). I'm quite focused and not so ADHD in the classroom. But when left to my own devices? I'm all over the place - and happy as a clam about it.

The fruits of my studying today have produced the following:

An Adorable Bossa Nova Song (B sent me this song last night saying I'd "prolly like it," and boy was he right!! I've been listening to it all day long and it makes me feel like I'm in some crazy adventurous dream...)

16 Habits of Highly Creative People (I found this after Abby came in and looked at me weird and Katie asked why I was meowing. I wanted proof it was okay I was so weird. And, as it turns out, I found all the proof I needed. HA.)

TED Talk - i.e. What Makes Me Such a Unique Teacher (I found this yesterday when I was fooling around online and rediscovered my love for TED Talks while I was putting away laundry. This lady's talk literally made me cry, because I just agree so much with her, and see myself in what she was describing!!!)

Finland's Education System (I learned about this in the class I worked on today. What you don't hear in this mini introduction to it is how all the students take their shoes off when they get to school to create a relaxed environment and how their average school day is about four hours long, with a break between each class. I don't know how the brilliant person that came up with this got people to listen to him/her, but man do I salute them. It makes me wish I could create my own education system and try it out!!)

XOXO