Newly back home with only this thought for now.
On the flight home, at one point I suddenly realized I was:
1. Eating
2. Drinking
3. Listening to my iPod
4. Tapping my foot and humming due to Item 3
5. Knitting
6. Doing a crossword puzzle
...all more or less simultaneously (and all while trying to avoid shimmying or elbowing my way into the personal space of the nice grandfatherly type to my right).
My poor brain. Perhaps one can occasionally multitask a little too much.
(On the other hand, I got on the plane in warm-ish San Diego with an unfinished scarf which I didn't need anyway; got off in cold Seattle and was able to wrap a completed scarf around my neck. There is some putridly awful pun in there about "in the knit of time" but I won't go there. I will settle for feeling smug. And snug.)
[Next-morning afterthought: It occurs to me that I'm glad I wasn't also trying to get a pill out of its bubble pack, or with all that blazing kinetic and mental energy, I might very well have pinged Mr. SnootySnootSnoot in First Class in the back of the head—and I was sitting in the very last row in the plane.]
Posted by Ryan at December 27, 2009 10:09 PMWay to go! You're right to feel smug. I would too.
Posted by: Swapna on December 27, 2009 10:34 PMIt's the crossword puzzle that makes that list qualify for the Multitasker Championships. I bow down before you.
Posted by: Ruth on December 28, 2009 05:54 AMJust a little smug can be a fine thing!
Posted by: Caro on December 28, 2009 07:46 AMPerfect timing! I often multitask while knitting, usually listening to music, or watching... OK, fine, listening to, TV. But I knit way too slowly, so I wouldn't have finished a scarf between San Diego and Seattle, either.
Posted by: Batty on December 29, 2009 01:12 PMClearly your brain is much more talented than mine!
Posted by: Kristen on December 29, 2009 03:50 PM