Gifted Typist

Yesterday, I ran over my glasses.
I didn’t hear the sound over the car’s motor, but I can imagine it went something like this.
“Crrrrr-uuuunch.”
They must have fallen out of my purse when unloading from a family trip to the cottage. When I nipped out for some onions later in the day, I must have run them [...]

These were the search terms for a hit I had from Bostwana, Africa this morning.
It gives pause for thought. What, exactly, does a typist do?
The name of this blog came about in response to the dreaded cocktail party question:
And what do you do?
Um, erm, ahhhhh????
My resume is a dog’s breakfast. I’ve done so many things [...]

After almost chopping off the tip of my left index finger chopping carrots the other day, I noticed blood on my keyboard. The letters T, R, F, G, B, V were stained red. How poetic, I thought. How Dylanesque.
So I put out a call for lyrics for Blood on the Keyboard.
The Tartan Taxidermist – also [...]

As the American political pendulum swings, so does GT.
The change has nothing to do with the war in Iraq, the mafia of neo-cons or the sub-prime mortgage crisis.
It has to do with the pain bomblets going off in my upper back. Too much typing and too much right-hand mousing are to blame.
So in addition [...]

… until GT hightails ‘er up to Toronto to see The Police live in concert on Thursday. Reviews have been great and a weekend in Toronto is always divine.
And almost as exciting as The Police concert is the “Early Typewriters” exhibition at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM). For any typist, this would be a must-do [...]

This typist is happy, efficient and motivated when it comes to typing.
But when it comes to admin tasks, the opposite is true. Admin induces a despondencythat borders on coma.
Filing HST returns, as I am doing today, induces deep depression.
Because of this, I avoid admin activities as long as possible. I save it all up until [...]

Is visiting this week.
It’s true. She’s a lovely girl from Wales now living in a mill conversion in the south of France.
I attended her wedding in Shropshire a few years ago. It was held on a medieval estate with bride, groom and guests dressed in full Victorian period costume. A stunning sight to behold. Ossy [...]

Ernest Hemingway
1899-1961
Birthplace: Oak Park, Illinois
Typewriter: Corona No. 3 & No.4*, Underwood Noiseless Portable*, various Royal portables*, Halda portable (recently sold in an online auction)

Hemingway started his career as a writer in a newspaper office in Kansas City at the age of seventeen. Before the United States entered the First World War, he joined [...]

Today we start a new series on GT: typist and typewriter.
Some of the best prose ever written came through the keystrokes of a trusty typewriter. You can almost hear the clickety clack of the writer in the garret tapping away on the old manual typewriter. Those days are gone now and typist and typewriter have [...]