Guess what learned in the (2 1/2 hour) staff meeting this morning? I can type 38 words a minute.

[underpants]

[ProfessorGAC]

1. Got Into A Rhythm, Didn't You?

My mom was an amazing typist. She worked as an executive secretary for a government contractor before I was born.
She typed over 100wpm with zero errors back in the manual typewriter days.
On a computer, she was transcribing testimony from tape at normal talking speed to the day she died.
Because of that, I knew how to touch type before I could even write cursive.

[underpants]

2. One of the two things I learned in high school- typing and driving a car

Essentials. Other than that I did time.

BTW - I take the notes for the staff meetings so….

[Oeditpus Rex]

3. I've always said I didn't graduate from high school

I was paroled.

But, yeah -- I took typing in summer schol between seventh and eighth grades, or sixth and seventh.. It was one of the few classes I ever had that applied to the rest of my life, especially since I went on to major in journalism and become a sportswriter, and eventually an editor.

And, speaking of taking notes, I think every reporter should learn shorthand. I didn't, but it would've made interviews a lot easier.