[personal] The Frog Saw It All...
I don't do just one thing at a time very well.
My body doesn't mind it so much but my brain does so if I'm not doing one activity that fully occupies all the processing power of my mind, I get restless and edgy and I can't focus on the task I am doing and all sorts of stuff like that. At home, I overcome it with music because I can keep the rest of my brain happy so I can focus on the task. At school, that wasn't possible so what I did instead was math. It doesn't sound like it should work because general the formula for success in school does NOT include ignoring the teacher, not taking notes, not reading the assigned material even for literature classes, doing the bare minimum homework if any at all, and spending class time focused intently on a task that is not even the same SUBJECT. More often than not, though, with all of those things being completely true, the teacher would ask the class a question and, without looking up, I'd answer it despite being the person arguably paying the LEAST attention. Of course, because I'm not paying attention, I'm not really speaking very loudly so it tends to get overlooked until I repeat it for the fifth time and someone sitting next to me finally notices and says it louder.
I'm just not good at focusing on tasks that don't require every bit of my focus.
When I first started my temporary job, the sheer amount of work kept me very occupied so it wasn't an issue, but once I'd taken care of the majority of them and my task turned into going over the same three hundred names using the same exact steps knowing that the steps all were a dead end and that I couldn't confidently validate any of them, it wasn't enough for my brain (especially hopped up on fifty gajillion tons of coffee) and I think drumming my fingers on the desk and tapping the ground with my foot and all the other things my body starts to do when my mind is bored probably was going to bother my coworkers. So I started drawing. No curves because those take more time and focus. Straight lines only. A little three-minute sketch would take an hour because it's one or two lines at a time while waiting for web pages to load and for search functions to yield (no) results. Most of it was trash and that's where it ended up but a few of them were good enough to keep. And after the frog one, I decided I absolutely had to put the line "the frog saw it all" into TWCC and, wouldn't you know, I succeeded.
Only now it occurs to me you guys might like to SEE the aforementioned frog. He wasn't actually intended to be a frog. It was supposed to be a mound of dirt in the flower pot but it came out a little wonky so I improvised. Anyway, the hubby has absconded with the printer/scanner for the weekend so I had to use the digital camera to take photos with the flash because it's the only setting on the damn thing that can compensate for my hand tremors. That sort of washes the colors out a bit but you can still see 'em pretty good. The only one that's really hard to see is the church one that was drawn with orange lines but the inside border of the shapes it made are colored to turn what was once a bunch of random lines into a picture of some buildings on some hills including a church from the perspective of a parking lot with the sun rising behind them. Since you can't really tell the purple, blue, and black apart, it's hard to make out what's sky, what's buidling, what's asphalt, etc. Still looks cool though.
So... in no particular order, here's the best of my hand-and-mind-busying artwork that got me through the music-less boring stuff. Oh, the church one is the second one. My favorites are the dragon and the pond. Oh, and the frog is behind the flower pot and yes, those are mice despite looking sort of pig-ish.
My body doesn't mind it so much but my brain does so if I'm not doing one activity that fully occupies all the processing power of my mind, I get restless and edgy and I can't focus on the task I am doing and all sorts of stuff like that. At home, I overcome it with music because I can keep the rest of my brain happy so I can focus on the task. At school, that wasn't possible so what I did instead was math. It doesn't sound like it should work because general the formula for success in school does NOT include ignoring the teacher, not taking notes, not reading the assigned material even for literature classes, doing the bare minimum homework if any at all, and spending class time focused intently on a task that is not even the same SUBJECT. More often than not, though, with all of those things being completely true, the teacher would ask the class a question and, without looking up, I'd answer it despite being the person arguably paying the LEAST attention. Of course, because I'm not paying attention, I'm not really speaking very loudly so it tends to get overlooked until I repeat it for the fifth time and someone sitting next to me finally notices and says it louder.
I'm just not good at focusing on tasks that don't require every bit of my focus.
When I first started my temporary job, the sheer amount of work kept me very occupied so it wasn't an issue, but once I'd taken care of the majority of them and my task turned into going over the same three hundred names using the same exact steps knowing that the steps all were a dead end and that I couldn't confidently validate any of them, it wasn't enough for my brain (especially hopped up on fifty gajillion tons of coffee) and I think drumming my fingers on the desk and tapping the ground with my foot and all the other things my body starts to do when my mind is bored probably was going to bother my coworkers. So I started drawing. No curves because those take more time and focus. Straight lines only. A little three-minute sketch would take an hour because it's one or two lines at a time while waiting for web pages to load and for search functions to yield (no) results. Most of it was trash and that's where it ended up but a few of them were good enough to keep. And after the frog one, I decided I absolutely had to put the line "the frog saw it all" into TWCC and, wouldn't you know, I succeeded.
Only now it occurs to me you guys might like to SEE the aforementioned frog. He wasn't actually intended to be a frog. It was supposed to be a mound of dirt in the flower pot but it came out a little wonky so I improvised. Anyway, the hubby has absconded with the printer/scanner for the weekend so I had to use the digital camera to take photos with the flash because it's the only setting on the damn thing that can compensate for my hand tremors. That sort of washes the colors out a bit but you can still see 'em pretty good. The only one that's really hard to see is the church one that was drawn with orange lines but the inside border of the shapes it made are colored to turn what was once a bunch of random lines into a picture of some buildings on some hills including a church from the perspective of a parking lot with the sun rising behind them. Since you can't really tell the purple, blue, and black apart, it's hard to make out what's sky, what's buidling, what's asphalt, etc. Still looks cool though.
So... in no particular order, here's the best of my hand-and-mind-busying artwork that got me through the music-less boring stuff. Oh, the church one is the second one. My favorites are the dragon and the pond. Oh, and the frog is behind the flower pot and yes, those are mice despite looking sort of pig-ish.