Deanne's Blog

Superhero

= bad idea

This is an old story but I was thinking about it today. When I lived in Chico, (I know tricia, its not on the places I have lived in my about me) well, I became a sort of a hermit. My Mom and Dad were kind enough to supply me with a computer so I could do school work, and then some. The "and then some," is what made me a hermit, and the fact that *gasp* surprise, I was not much of a party animal. I chatted all day long to my friends, including Alex who lived in Hong Kong at the time. I will say the reason I left school is because I felt so unproductive and lame. But I was having fun :)

I pretty much surrounded my desk at school with anything vital such as food, drinks, tv, stereo, and all my computer junk. Those that know me, know I am a closet craft freak. My family used to give tours of my "freak" bedroom when I was not home. I made so many odd things and stuck them on walls etc. Some of the tour highlights were old shoes on the ceiling, and old skirt for a lamp shade, hair on the wall, drawings in pencil of random things, basically, if it wasn't supposed to be there, I nailed, tacked, or glued it on. Which brings me --finally-- to glue...glue was another component on my desk and I used it all the time to make crafts, until that fateful day.

doodlie doot.. doodlie doot...doodlie doot..Just kidding. I was typing and somehow knocked my glue over. I kind of had a brain fart and watched as it poured all over my keyboard. This keyboard was like my gateway to the world and I freaked when this happened. I had no money or tools so I wiped up the keyboard as best as I could. The one problem was that one key was stuck down...permanently.

My poor "s" key! Like I said, I was poor so I had to make due. For the next few months, I had to cut and paste, or "control v" my s's in. I never bought a new keyboard. The letter just somehow became unstuck after a while of me tapping on it. I have to admit, I became quite good at improvising by avoiding words with "s," and mentally just making "control V" like typing an "s". It was like a lame super hero power.

There is no point to this story, except don't put glue next to a keyboard. I know.. I made you read all this for nothin. Just had to put it down on "paper."

If you had a lame super hero power, what would it be?

Posted by deanne at March 22, 2004 11:40 PM