Copying

A long time ago, I bought a book probably already priced at black Friday sales price so I am not scurrying to go shopping.

I really enjoyed this book and want to read it and look at it over and over again.  Therefore I am copying it into my sketchbook.

If your child really like a book from the library, maybe you can encourage your child to copy the entire book into their sketch book.  Including the copyright text.

I am very happy with my copying skill.  I am diligently copying it because we will be parting soon so I won't get to look at the original any longer.

I am back in school

Dear my non-existent readers:

I am back in school.  I am now working on my first homework assignment.

I have my pencils erasers and ruler ready to copy my first homework assignment.

I have to first sharpen my first unused pencil with my pencil sharpener which I have put paper mache all over when I was a child in art class.

Originally the pencil sharpener was just a paper sharpener.  Now it is a tiger with a missing ear in a suit.  Originally, it had two ears but throughout its existence, an ear have fell off.

When I opened my pencil sharpener this morning some residue fell out from the last time I used it.  I thought to myself, I can go discard it in my mother's vegetable garden. It's just paper thin wood.

Excuse moi, as I go do my homework.

Talking Outloud

I have been talking outloud for a while now because I want to hear my thoughts.  It is a bit embarrassing when I do that though because I believe it is view as not normal to talk to yourself in public all by yourself.  I chuckle a lot when I am talking outloud and having a conversation all by myself in a public place because I believe I appear very weird to everyone around me.  Maybe even a lunatic.  I wish someone would actually look at me and ask if I know I am talking outloud so I can explain to them that yes I am aware (it's just that everyone else is already preoccupied with someone or something else and I do not know any of the strangers around me). 

"Awkward!" 

"I know!"

I miss the class clown.

Sorry, I digress.

Another reason I talk outloud is because I need to concentrate while everyone else around me is chatting and having a conversation.  Therefore I need to block out their conversation so I can continue thinking about what I need to think about.

Reading outloud is similar.  For example, let's say I am reading on the subway, I lose concentration, I read a little louder in my head, still cannot get back into the reading, I re-read the same sentence a little louder with hums sounds (but not actually uttering the word) until I am able to concentrate fully and continue to read silently again.

This thinking outloud occurs at work sometimes because I have to explain the document I am writing to myself so it make sense.  The paperwork can get very confusing.  By the time I get to meet with someone to talk about the progress of my work, I ask questions that I am still not sure about.  I feel very happy when I catch my own mistakes and the person I am confirming with agrees that I put in the wrong information or that I am still missing the information.