Mal ,'Ariel'
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Raq, that's sweet. Have you seen her?
Mimeograph fluid, mmmm . . .
The heady smell of corflu...
Insane, Lilty. One minute late, TWICE? hahaha and that's the equivalent of an unexplained sick day? Batshit. I was doing good if I could get there less than half an hour late, when I was still going in to the office.
I learned to type on a blue electric typewriter. We had a computer at that point -- we'd had a computer since I was a toddler -- but I found an old book (it might have belonged to my grandfather) with exercises for learning how to type, and I don't think that going through the exercises on a word processor ever occurred to me. It was a typewriter book, so I used it with the typewriter.
I learned to type on a typewrite in Intro to Keyboarding in high school. I found it difficult to translate it to my computer at home at first because the keys were much more sensitive.
I have freakishly small hands and Mrs. Frings' typing class in junior high nearly did me in. I swear, the keys on that (non-electric) typewriter were purposely spaced so far apart, you needed jackhammer mitts to make a decent impression.
Still, I love that I learned to touch type back then...now that 'keyboarding' is such a big part of daily life.
I have learned to type fast, but I definitely type "wrong". My Tiny Dink Hands (TM) don't help.
ETA: Hubs coined the phrase Tiny Dink Hands. It's rude, but it's stuck.
I took typing several times in school -- all on computers. At the vocational school I went to for a legal secretary certificate (which I have done nothing with) the instructor was very particular about typing properly.
Any time she came around I had to change the way I typed, which slowed me down. She was coninviced if everyone typed "correctly" they'd be faster. The thing that seemed to bother her the most is my habit of using the left shift key for all shifting. I don't know how I got started doing that but I don't ever use the right shift key.
askye, I use the left shift key too. It's so close to CTRL! So handy!
Well, shit. I just looked down and realized there was a right CTRL too. Huh.
I took a typing class in 9th grade. It was on a manual typewriter. 30+ years later I still hammer the keys on any given keyboard.
Taking typing was the best decision I made in high school. We learned on Royal Standards, the most durable typewriter made, and I spent four years writing on Royal Standards at my college newspaper and part of my first year as a reporter. I got a portable manual Smith Corona in high school and wrote all my papers on it, as well as typing papers for money. It's still around here somewhere. I also have my aunt's Royal portable from the '30s.
Nearly every job I've had could be linked to the secretarial typing course I took in High School, which was more intensive than the basic course most everybody else took. We had IBM Selectrics. The guy behind me hit the power button and the carriage flew off the typewriter.