I just remembered, in grade school, I used to make up extra credit projects. I made famous battle enactments, volcanoes, drawings of what we were studying, and bring them to class. I was just thinking about my teachers always saying, "But, I didn't ask you to do this project." It didn't click; I kept doing projects when I felt like it.
"But, I didn't ask you to do this project." suddenly I remembered the look on their faces. The lens of time came be very funny.