So I am going to start a new feature (because I am a complete and utter dork) called Country of the Week. I will choose a country, at random, to focus on for one week only, and every day I will provide random facts about said country. A lot of my learning about the world is not linear, and not typical. I never took a class in world history. I have picked up my information through many weird sources, and I have a mind like a steel trap.
So basically, dork that I am, I take notes. On index cards. Which now lie in a pile in my room, and stretch almost to the sun. What do I want to DO with these cards? I have no idea. All I know is is that I wanted to somehow organize my thoughts, and also organize the world in my mind.
So if something flares up in, say, Mali, I will be able to immediately look at my little stack of Mali cards, for some well-needed context (something you will not get if you only watch network news, which I have learned, to my chagrin).
I wonder if it is possible to develop autism late in life. Sometimes, as I am feverishly jotting down some random note about Byelorussia, on a card pulled out from the 19,670 other cards, and then re-inserted in exactly the right spot, I feel as though I am developing some sort of nervous disorder.
But at least it is manifesting itself in a relatively harmless way, and not a clock-tower kind of way.
