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Show Just Stuff by Jan It's done on the phone, in class, at the table, chatting with friends, riding in a car, watching TV, just about anywhere. Lot's of people do it old folks; young folks; fat people; skinny people; poor people; rich people; even famous people, I'm sure do it, but it's never considered a binding tie. Why do people doodle? My sister keeps a pad and pen by her phone, not necessarily for messages, but for doodling. If she happens to sit down next to it, immediately the pen jumps into her hand, and she's off creating some collage of squares, diamonds, circles, lines. If she happens to be on the phone, her doodling doesn't mean she's bored --People can be sKtr-r, in ? jp phone ''conversation .grssttiiwe is no rest for the pen. Doodling is what saves numerous students (it also is the downfall of many!) It is so much easier to make scribbles, draw faces, and create designs, than it is to try and make sense out of, let alone copy down, what a professor is saying. Each quarter, with a new class comes a new note book . . and also a new challenge.: "What type of collage am I going to create on this book?" By the end of the quarter I have a masterpiece, ready for framing. (Maybe not gallery material, but still pretty good.) I think doodling must run in the family. My mom's real big on it. Her note books is usually filled with funny little faces with beards and glasses. Or spirals ... the page is covered with miniature cyclones. It seems everyone has their favorite. It might be smiling faces, boxes, circles, stars. Maybe they like flowers or glasses or hearts. I once covered'an entire page with different eyes. People doodle words (which works great if you have a boyfriend) or letters, shapes and patterns. Maybe just zigzags or waves . . . what's yours? I think it's the blank page that is intimidating. When a person looks at an empty sheet of paper, his immediate response is "I need to fill it!" Unfortunately, when a teacher hands out an exam, it's pretty-difficult to get an "A" for "excellent doodles." But blank pages are intimidating! People look at blank pages, and it has a direct effect on the mind ... it goes blank too. It's especially frustrating when it's time to write my column to sit down to a typewriter with a blank piece of paper . . . Shazam . . . There goes the mind. Blank, like the paper. It wouldn't be so bad, but have you ever tried to doodle with a typewriter? |