As a writer I tend to focus on words. How they sound, what they mean and the beauty of a well crafted sentence, especially if it has the graceful flow of alliteration in it. I love words. I always have. Just ask my mother. She once said that she couldn't wait for me to talk but then she wished I would be quiet. She was not the last person to think that about me!So imagine my surprise to realize that my life right now is being driven by numbers. I have two days until Spring Break then I have six days until my students begin taking standardized tests. I need them to ALL score 80 % or higher. Then we have four weeks until summer vacation.
Pantster and I are working hard to get a revised book completed. It is 348 pages long. So I ask myself how many pages can I read by Monday when she and I work together. We are probably going to work on breaking it into three parts so I think about how many pages will end up in each section. I also need to do some research related to completing the work so I wonder when I will get to that and how many hours it will take? I am really excited about getting to both of these so there is yet another reason to be counting down the hours until Spring Break.
It is like my head is just a jumble of numbers. It seems that the numbers won't fall into line as easily as the words usually do for me. Maybe if I had one of Kathy's Sleep Number beds it would go better for me.
I know we usually are talking about words, but what kinds of numbers do you have running around in your head today?
