It took a while to learn how to multitask, a skill most notably absent when I watch my football team playing a game. It takes intense focus from me for my team to play the game. Without my focus, I fear what would happen.<\/p>\n
Multitasking seems to be valued as an asset for people who are involved in human conversations with other people while simultaneously scrolling around on their cell phones.<\/p>\n
Yes, I should have scorned the idiotic adage, “A watched pot never boils,” instead of writing while cooking something, resulting in (1) trashing a kitchen timer which apparently was so transfixed by watching the pot boil, it failed to buzz, and (2) keeping an oddly attractive blackened saucepan with a thoroughly attractive coppery exterior.<\/p>\n
So I’ve had a few small problems with doing a couple of things at the same time. But a few nights ago, something happened about which I’m still worried.<\/p>\n
My multitask was reading a magazine while watching a British crime-solving series.<\/p>\n
Each crime is explored over two one-hour segments. Because it’s an excellent series, it doesn’t present an over-intricate solution: we’ve met the killer at some point in the two hours so although there’s a surprise about who the killer is, it’s not some rococo twist. That is, it’s logical and satisfying.<\/p>\n
So here I was, reading a New Yorker while looking up at the TV occasionally when, after the killer had been apprehended, our crime-solving team realized there were two killers — the one they caught and another one. So everyone dashed off to grab Killer Two. Except me. I cried out (to the team), “Wait, what? Who is this guy?”<\/p>\n
I didn’t remember Killer Two. I mean, he had to have made a serious appearance at some point in the two hours, right? You can’t just pull a “Oh, the killer is [fill in the blank],” when [the blank] is a heretofore unknown character. But I couldn’t put together who the hell this guy was. For all I knew, he could have been dragged out of another series and inserted into the one I was watching, just because.<\/p>\n
It’s possible therapy would help me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It took a while to learn how to multitask, a skill most notably absent when I watch my football team playing a game. It takes intense focus from me for my team to play the game. Without my focus, I … Continue reading