Typing, typing, and you guessed it more typing

Well I hope I haven't been neglecting my blogging friends too much lately. I miss you guys. I have been busy learning how to type correctly. I haven't had much free time with that and the art show. I am looking forward to being done with that so I can catch up on all your blogs. This is the last weekend, thank God.

Anyway, you might ask yourself why is Nina learning to type correctly? O.k., so you probably didn't ask yourself that, and furthermore you probably don't give a shit. For the few of you still left I'll explain. I have a couple of reasons. First, I fear I will be unable to return to my field because most of the positions require more physical activity than I am capable of handling. I think the best choice for my back is a sedentary job. It has been my experience that most sedentary jobs require some typing. Second, I am embarrassed. When I instant message with Grace I am astonished at her speed and have noticed that I make several typos. I look like an uneducated idiot. My words not hers. So, it was time to do something about it.

Now, you are probably chomping at the bit to know how I am undertaking this feat. I am not taking a class. I took one of those in college, but I was so stoned and skipped class so much I can't say it helped much. Now don't go thinking that stoned girls don't give a shit about their GPA. I crammed for the last week and taught myself how to type. What happened to my skills? I went back to my old habits. Anyway, back to the point at hand, I am using a program called Mavis. It's been really helpful up until now. You see I had to relearn all the keys. This includes totally obsolete keys. At this point I am about to shove 190 peaches, 8,367 apples, and a partridge and a pear tree up Mavis' ass. I can't remember the last time I used the traditional number keys. I mean when was the last time you used the brace ({ }) keys? AB, don't answer that please. Furthermore what is wrong with us? If one were to type the word dick into the computer a plethora of information would appear. Do you know what happens when you type grammatical symbols, {, or anything remotely like that in google? Bupkis. That's what happens. I called three people, all of whom I would consider educated, and no one even knew what these ({ } ) were called. As usual, I was over thinking the whole thing. I kept thinking it had something to do with parenthetical nomenclature. Duh, it is in the name, it refers to parentheses. AGH! So at this point I am unable to get an accurate speed on my new typing abilities. I am sure I can google a test later.

On another note, I think we are having an early New Year's . Why would I say that? It seems to me that everyone is taking on a new project/resolution. AB is about to start a novel, Grace is taking holiday cooking classes, Quyen is learning how to shove a steal fan up my ass, Little Eyes is trying to lose ten pounds, you get the idea. So maybe I am not so far off on my learning to type correctly. It somehow seems encouraging to me that people are in a motion of forward progression, no matter how small or large the steps.

I just have one thing left to say. Shove this up your {ass} Mavis!