I Am the Typo King—I Can Do Anything!

It's Saturday morning, I have my coffee, my laptop, my fingers in position on the keyboard, and I am ready to typo.

That's right, ready to typo. I say that because I think it's time to embrace my typo-prone-ness. I try to be careful. But I always, ALWAYS find some typo-error that I missed. I seem to be unable to not include at least one typo regardless of what I am working on. And I do a lot of writing for my job because, well, I am a decent writer (or so I like to tell myself). The typo-thing even became an issue with my supervisor. An issue I resolved quickly by starting my work-related writing projects much, MUCH earlier, so I have multiple occasions to go over my drafts before I submit/circulate/publish them.

I was able to get away with typos in college because, in general, my professors gave way more precedence to my content, which, in ways, reinforced my use of typos. Why scrutinize or make changes if I am always getting A's?

But for these blogs—and the goal I set for myself of one per day—it's a challenge just to keep up. So sometimes I just have to churn it out and publish before the day ends. Which, for me, is a fertile recipe for the proliferation of typos.

A big part of my typo-proclivity is my typing, as I have mentioned before. I so wish I cared more in my high school typing class.

(I guess I could say the same for all my high school classes in general—ironic for someone who works in higher education, I know. But actually, it was because of my early academic troubles that I am pretty good at what I do now. I am in a better position to understand and help struggling students.)

I never learned to type properly. I often have to look at the keyboard to type, which results in a lot of typos. I catch a lot. But, obviously, I miss a lot too.

I don't have a solution for now. I just want to claim ownership for my mistakes, instead of trying to avoid and deny them. Ownership lead to awareness. Awareness leads to increased control over your wiring process. Control over your writing process leads to...suffering. Sorry, couldn't resist including terrible Yoda advice from the Star Wars prequels.

As a wise and popular sailor once said, I am what I am and that's all that I am.