Process

Maybe it's my background in creative problem solving, but I actually noticed my thinking today. (Will skip the fancy word for that.) I've been struggling a bit the last few days getting settled into what I need to be doing for the next four weeks.

What I noticed today - pretty much an out of body like noticing - was the internal brainstorm process I go through when I'm figuring something out. Right now that sumthin is my exam questions. Of course I could have made it easy on myself (why would I do that?) and just chose a question to begin working on -- that would be too easy. I prefer to let all that stuff whirl around in my thick skull - grabbing at pieces to hang on to briefly - my own spin on chaos theory - and then like magic (yea right) - whoooosh - intense focus with a solution. (Such a rush, maybe that's why I dig it so much.)

"The whirl" has been the crux of the last few days - read the questions, ponder a bit, read the questions, ponder more, read the questions, evaluate and assess, read the questions, wonder what the heck they are really asking, read the questions, ask myself which one should I work on first … and then read the questions again.

While I was waiting for my car to get worked on today I set up a piece of paper for each question and wrote stream of consciencously (is that even a word?) on facets to cover in the (potential) answer. When I found myself concentrating on one question more than the others … ding, ding, ding … I had a winner!

Interestingly I discovered connections between all the questions - could that be the "comprehensive" component? Is that the grand plan?

Whatever.

Day 2.8 has arrived and all is good in the kingdom!