I realized something today about having a non-linear brain: orderly subjects like geometry and symbolic logic elude me because I just don't think that way. You're supposed to go from point A to point B to point C in order. My brain goes from point A to point B to point Z, and hey! that makes me think of point J . . . and so on. It's good for creativity, but not so good for the logical patterns of life. Ah, well, I know it, and I just have to work around it.

I think that's why I do well writing everything down where I can see it, and having orderly lesson plans. I need things written down to keep me straight; I am overwhelmed when the plans go awry. But I don't let on to my students that I'm feeling out of control, of course.

I will leave you with "A Teacher's Motto":

I will not yell in class. I will not throw things in class. I will not get mad and hit anyone in class. I will not have a temper tantrum, and I will always be good . . . because I am the teacher.

The first quarter just ended, and the commercials are on. (I wonder why there are so many ads for vacuum cleaners? Maybe because they know all their viewers have dogs or something!). They told us the game would be back after commercials - "Don't go away. Sit! Stay! Good humans!).

When I am at home by myself, I find myself talking to the livestock (read: Bailey and Sophie) a lot. It's tough for an ADHD person to do - we need someone to bounce our thoughts off of!

Hello World!

I am an aspiring teacher with a brain I like to compare to a Fisher-Price popcorn popper (yes, I DO have ADHD, thank you very much). My thoughts pop and bounce off each other like the plastic bubbles inside the popper that little children like to run over the ground to see the bubbles go pop-pop-pop! One never knows where my train of thought will go, which makes it interesting for me and everyone else. I can start off on one subject, only to end up on something entirely different. Life is never dull for me because of my "popcorn brain."