Typing

There are certain times when I get really frustrated with my typing ability.  There are, in particular, two words that trip me up repeatedly: "equation," which often manages to come out "equatino" as I type, and "sensitivity," which comes out in a variety of ways.  It doesn't help that as I type "sensitivity" I frequently have to stop and think about which syllable I'm on.

While a normal person does not have much need to type "sensitivity" (just had to stop and focus on syllables there!) and "equation" very often, a person writing her dissertation on a new application of sensitivity analysis in structural health monitoring does.  Even worse is when I have to talk about observability.  According to Microsoft Word, "observability" is not a word, and even after I've told Word to add "observability" to the dictionary, Word repeatedly tells me that it's misspelled.  (Clearly, Google is smarter than Microsoft; it understands that "observability" is a word.)

Maybe I should do drills on typing those two words, like I used to do with really fast passages on the violin.  Or maybe I should pick up my violin again.  One time in high school, I was typing a paper right after having drilled myself over and over on a really tricky fast passage, I think in Beethoven's 7th Symphony, and I was amazed at how quickly I could type!  But I digress.

So, now that you feel entirely unenlightened by my post, and possibly unentertained, I will return to my writing, and frequency mistypings of "equation" and "sensitivity."  (Hey, I just got both of those without mishap!)