Flo

It’s Saturday morning and I am “all over the map”.  Five windows are open in Internet Explorer and six in Outlook.  I have started letters to friends, searched the internet for information on an accident, looked at my blog, written in my journal, written an email, started an email to a friend, started an email to another friend, washed and sorted laundry and had two large cups of tea.  I wish I could honestly say that this state of mind is due to the amount of caffeine in the two-large-cups-of-tea.  Although they definitely contributed, they are not to blame.  It is the nature of my brain when running amuck.

While trying to ensure the correct spelling of “amuck“, I found an alternative spelling A-M-O-K and that the definition includes “to rush about in a murderous frenzy”. Hmmm – no murderous frenzy in my brain, just a “jumbled or confused state” as well as “an uncontrolled state or a state of extreme activity”.  I can accept the jumbled and extreme activity parts of these descriptions.

It seems that when my brain does not have to focus on a particular client, task or activity, it has a life of its own and I am following it around saying “oh, what’s that?” or “Let’s do this” and the brain just keeps a-runnin’.  It is controllable and I can rein it in at any time; there are just times I feel like letting it run its course, ambling, jumping and leaping around until the most important thing is landed on and one task can be completed.

Maybe it’s just Saturday.