I love your default icon! It is very lovely. As a side note, when you eventually get around to doing more with those Sherlock screen shots over at your icon journal - well, I'm really looking forward to that! Your Gladstone's Collar contributions are fantastic - icons and playlists and covers, oh my!

ahem, back on topic.

Thanks for weighing in. As I continue to (hopefully) learn and grow, this is a pretty hot topic in my head at the moment. I think a lot of the appeal in the typing is the speed. I learned to type, and to do so quickly, in order to get a job and a paycheck. The fact that it now allows me to do this is basically blowing my mind. I've likened it a few times to some invisible entity feeding a ticker tape directly into my brain which I'm simply transcribing - at times writing/typing is more than a bit scary for me.

But, as you say, life is odd, and computer time can be limited or oddly regulated for the most bizarre reasons. Being able to noodle around productively on paper is a very valuable skill which I intend to foster - despite the fact that I continue to attract not entirely positive attention. *cough. I'm on a train. You are not real. cough.*

thanks again!