Absolutely no attention span

By Katharine

Since it's been a slow afternoon here, I was re-reading some of Jeff's previous blog entries and I'm struck by the number of times my attention span, or lack thereof, has come up. For example, my father mentions in a comment that I used to put together large, 3 ring binders filled with notes, pictures, stories, etc.. of metal bands I liked. All alphabetized for easy access. And he's right when he says that if I put a tenth of that effort into my school work, I would have graduated with some sort of cum laude... BUT, I had absolutely *no* interest in schoolwork and would spend my days in some sort of fog. Writing notes to friends, writing notes to my boyfriend/fiance/whatever he was at the time... I would also write long "romantic predictions" for my friends featuring whatever boy/actor/celebrity they had a crush on that week. Now THAT was interesting. So here's the question... since I wasn't exactly good in school... how the heck am I going to tell any potential/maybe someday/we're not really sure we want any children that THEY should pay attention in school???? I mean.. kind of hypocritical of me don't you think? Maybe that's the area where Jeff should step in and parent?? ;-)