Storytelling.

Telling a story--orally recounting events which have a beginning, middle, and end--often proves difficult to me.  I tend to digress, to veer, to start to make other connections.  What once was a straight line from point A to point B becomes as elaborate a mental topography as those Family Circus panels, where we'd follow the weaving, zigzagged dashed lines of Billy's journey to the store.  I begin at point A and wander away, crossing back only to find I'm spinning the opposite way before finally regaining the initial trajectory and finding myself at point B.

Sometimes, I never do get back on track to point B.  And so it remains out there in the ether of lost thoughts.  Waiting.

Process over product.  This is something I keep finding myself aiming at in the past two assignments written for my "History and Research Methods in Rhetoric and Composition" course.  The notion of process--HOW we write, how we compose text (whether it is written or spoken text)--versus the notion of product--the text itself, the work of literature or the speech.  I find process to be infinitely more intriguing that product.  This is true for me in virtually all fields, not just rhet/comp. 

I think this preference given to process is what gets me lost on my way to point B so often.