Ever been called "Absent-minded professor"?

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My grade 3 teacher called me an absent-minded professor because I appeared not to be paying attention in class but when she asked me a question I was able to answer it to the point where it seems as though I was listening.

I do not know what subject she was teaching but my guess is math. I don't know if my school had a crappy math curriculum, but I remember in grade 5 there was a time when the teacher would write a number on the board and other students were actually struggling in reading numbers IN GRADE 5. It was a joke to me.

My parents have used that name on me quite frequently. I am "book smart," but clumsy and sometimes lacking in "common sense."

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I've been called that a number of times. I took a Film class in college in which I would sleep during all movie showings, and only vaguely pay attention during any lectures. Out of a class of about 40 people only 2 other people besides myself got A's. The teacher seemed astonished when he handed back my final exam remarking that, "with how often you sleep in class I am very surprised that you're one of the 3 A's."

Continuously.

Yes, I've been cal

I am the Absent Minded Professor.

I was always called an under-achiever, in school. At work they are calling me "the artist" now.

I've always preferred "Mad Scientist" myself. But yes, I've been referred to as that.

When I was a kid my mom often was mean to me about my lack of common sense. I was smart, tested as gifted, but couldn't remember to bring my lunch box back home. I lost things constantly. I was also very smart in some things while being clueless at others. I was tested when I was in grade 2 or 3 I think, and I didn't know how many days there were in a year (I hadn't come across it while reading and no one ever told me) but I still scored gifted.

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omg I did not realize that "absent minded prof" was a well-known term. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absent-minded_professor

Everyone said that my head was all ways in the "cloud" I never knew what it meant.

Nope. Never. But I didn't do well in public school. I did hear "absent minded" a lot, but never followed by professor. I did much better in College. Once I switched my studies from Web Design (3.2 or something close average) to Music Technology, at a different college, I shot to 4.0 average and held it. So it wasn't that I couldn't do well. It was more that I was bored as hell, because I just plain didn't care about any of the subjects.

While this is not in class, but I seem to have sparred better if I wasn't looking directly at my opponent. Somehow, I found if I looked at my Karate opponent, I'd fight slower, sluggish. and allow stupid hits.

However by looking away, I am only granted 75% of the room. Like often my opponent would get around that by just side steeping. It's like When Agent Smith and Neo from Matrix fought, and Neo just non chalantly just blocks, after a few blows, from by my blind spot weekness, I'd focus on my opponent again, and the cycle would start all over again.

When I go to counter attack, I'd lock on to a particular body, and my opponent would know, because he or she can see where my eyes go.

I'm going to take up martial arts again, soon, once I get money flowing properly.

I find that I'm able to drive fluidly, by being absent minded. somehow just glide perfectly when thinking about something else when doing the parking meter parking, or even merging with freeway and changing lanes.But if I focus on driving, then I'm a very nervous wreck, well I enjoy driving, but I'm over calculating, being to cautious, while other cars just go zooom zooom with air vibrating my slow car.

Or when I'm giving change at the station, if there are one or two people sometimes I'm slow and hesitant, but when I have to work fast doing like say a Friday night rush... then I can glide, smoothly give change, ring up, get smokes, and still give a genuine hi. But like I said if there are one or two, and I have to think, it's like the rythem isn't there...I stammer, I sometimes even give wrong change out. I even forget proper procedure, of say ringing up lotto tickets, or something weird like that. Or out right even forget what I'm doing.... Or if a customer does something REALLY stupid, like pay for 30 dollars in Gas, with pennies and nickles, and gets mad when I often miss count. (he was wearing a business head phone too).

That was one of my nicknames as a child.