I have a strategy for remembering important things about my students and lesson plans: I leave myself sticky notes where I cannot miss them before that “thing” needs to be dealt with the next day. “Ask Joycie about her test.” “Contact Ms. James.”
Etc.
This morning when I got to school, I found a note that stumped me: “Daily Motion”.
From the things that were written at the top, I know I didn’t write it before lunch. Probably not even before seventh period. It’s in my handwriting, so I cannot deny authorship.
The problem is that I have no recollection of writing it, or what those words could possibly mean.
Daily Motion? What is that? A curriculum? A movie? Some type of dance? Did I mean to write something else, but a passing student uttered those words and I wrote them down instead and now the other, important thing is lost forever?
I have no idea.
Maybe the tech guy who let himself in to fix the projector last night figured out how to perfectly mimic my handwriting and is messing with me…
Mental Maytag 