I am, right this very second, supposed to be writing.
Sir Tessa is sitting across from me1 and she's working industriously.
I am not.2
Instead I am trying out Sir Tessa's new portable ergonomic keyboard. I am not succeeding overly well at typing with this contraption, because the keys are in the wrong space! They're also labelled weirdly, but, being a touch-typist, that's not so disturbing on the whole.
Being a touch-typist is also part of the problem, however. It means my fingers know precisely where the keys should be, and they're not there any more. Y and B are particularly troublesome: those two keys are supposed to be hit by the right and left index fingers, respectively. But I tend to indulge in some crossing of the keyboard, depending on the word in question, so every second time I try to hit either one of them I go for it with the wrong index finger and end up stabbing the table.
Yeah, I look pretty incapable right about now.
Maybe I'll go back to hunting and pecking. That's probably better for the wrists anyway.
- Well, she was, when we sat down. For all I know, given she's leant me her laptop riser stand and thus I can't see anything behind the screen, she's got up and run away, leaving me all alone in the library… [↩]
- She's gonna be so disappointed in me, when she realises what I've been doing with my time… [↩]
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Deb,
I need you to concentrate now. I'm up to page 76 of my shiny copy of Shadow Bound, so you only have a few days left before I'm going to be needing the third installment.
Do we need to take away your Internet?
…um, given there's actually only two books, and a third instalment is only a possibility at this point, I'd say you're pretty thoroughly screwed on that front. Sorry about that.
PS: Don't stop on page 76. Page 77 is the start of one of my favourite scenes π
DEBORAH. SHAAAAAME.
(Actually I kinda figured as much. You were typing way too fast and without pause for too long. No fiction is so cooperative.)
Heh. I did start typing on the faerie novel – but the Y and B keys were killing me. Figured a blog post would be good keyboard practice.
I did move on to Thorn Girls (re-reading it) and was just about to pick up the narrative again when … they booted us out of the library.
Totally not my day today.
Thorn! Girls!
Hi! π
Heh. I'm SO CLOSE to finishing that one.
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