Oh that kitchen has me thinking. One of the things that I may very likely need to do renovation wise when I move is add additional counterspace to divide a kitchen eating area from a living space - an old bar would work really well.

I feel like I should be listening to Kathy . Losing 30 to 50 lbs would make many things much more manageable.

Today I am vaguely cranky with my drifty ways.

I've got to start making my appointments for all the doctors I have to see before I can schedule my surgery, otherwise I won't be having it until April at the earliest.

Put me with the people who took typing in high school, also shorthand. I don't remember how to make many specific letters in shorthand, but I kept all the little words/combinations (the, to, to-the, in, in-the, able, will, willing, do, of, of-the, etc.) which I used extensively in note-taking in school. In grad school in Israel, I took my notes in an ugly mix of English, Hebrew, and shorthand. No one ever borrowed MY notes!

My handwriting has degenerated horribly over the years. I'm not looking forward to my first graduate class next week--I'll probably be spending the hour after class typing up my notes just so I can read them.

This looks like an excellent source for geography quizzes.

Thanks for the link, smonster. Now it's just about setting aside the time to do it justice.

I use math shorthand in my note taking. So things like ∃ and ∀ pop up here and there. Mrs. Shaw would be so proud...

Okay, back to the damned migration mapping. It's kicking my ass.

I also took typing in high school. Class was about 2/3 female, if memory serves. And my parents gave me a typewriter for a graduation present.

Came in real, real handy at college in the (pre-word processing) early '80s, when I didn't have to pay anyone to type my papers, including an 80-page honors thesis (double-spaced) that went through several drafts. By the time I finished that thesis, I was doing at least 80 words a minute.

I took typing in junior high. It was on manual typewriters, though, so even today I use about six times the force needed on my computer keyboard. When I was temping I managed ~100 wpm. This is why I like communicating via email at work. I can type as fast as I can speak (if not faster), and I have a trail of who said/did/committed to what.

I took typing my senior year of high school. After a double period lunch. Ended up cutting class a bunch, but as long as we could pass the tests, keeping our word count up, the teacher didn't care much. I find myself setting up in home position whenever I start typing or when I stop to think about what I'm going to write.

I can tell I depend on home position when I type on dilaudid. Because one or both of my hands will slip and my eyes don't check what I'm typing. Enter gibberish. And I'll happily keep clicking away for a while.

Okay, I just achieved a burst of organisational clarity. This document may yet be completed today. Shame I have to do two, and am lacking sufficient inspiration.