Learning to Type
“Run, for, go to, print, Miss Bar-bar-a Dy-les-ki. Run, for, go to, print, Miss Bar-bar-a Dy-les-ki.” These were the words I practiced over and over again in 1991 sitting in front of a monitor with a blinking green rectangle waiting for my next letter. I locked my eyes on the screen and did not allow myself to look down in search of the tricky letter k. Eventually those typing commands were strung together into mini programs on the computer, always following the script given to me by Miss Dyleski. I imagine now the neural pathways forming, not too perfectly, to connect the letters I intended to find with the correct position on the keyboard. Those memories however are vague in contrast to the word for word clarity of the endless hours spent trying to become a proficient typist.