What should I write about now?

What should I write about now?  I obviously can’t type or spell today so maybe I shouldn’t write.  Or maybe I should to quiet the thoughts that run through my head at 29 miles an hour.  I meant to say 20 but seeing that I can’t type today, it came out incorrectly.  I also just noticed that as I continue to write that my vocabulary is becoming more mature.  I know that Jon has a big problem with my spacing but when one writes at least one paper a week, one gets accustomed to it.  But I will try to go back to typing/ writing in MLA, for that apparently is how the world writes.  Excuse me; I need to correct more typing mistakes.

I am writing for I remember an English teacher telling her students to just write. Or maybe that was a movie. “Finding Forrester” rocks by the way. And not just because it stars Sean Connery. I know that was both a fragment and started with a conjunction.  I did it to make a point.  I have always considered my writing to be under par in some aspects.  It needs to get better.  I desperately need it to get better because it is a form of communication that is becoming lost in this mind numbing society.  I also know it can be better.

How long has it been since you picked up a classic and read it simply to know what it said?  By classic I mean over 150 years old, preferably longer. I am not referring to the Bible, although that also needs to be read. I read Dante last month and I enjoyed it. I really enjoyed it.  How many people in this country would do something like this, or would they just look it up on Google or Wikipedia?  How lazy and complacent our society has become.  Another conjunction and another misspelling have occurred. Excuse me.  When did this happen?  Why did it happen?  The typing I will blame on the MS and in some respects the spelling.  But I also blame it on the fact that Word tells me I spelled something wrong, it tells me I have written a fragment.  Perhaps this country is falling behind because we are becoming too dependent on technology.  I am no different. I read books on my phone, my addresses are on my computer or phone and my handwriting is atrocious.  A combination of MS and not caring is to fault for that. But I really don’t care. My joke is always, “my dad was a Corpsman and you know how doctors and such write. He taught me to write.” This is not true very much at all.  He wasn’t around much until I was 13!  I did try to copy him, though because I thought his handwriting was much cooler that my mother’s neat script. Last year, I tried to hand write a note to Jon in his birthday card and I couldn’t read it!! That’s really bad handwriting.  Someone told that they don’t even teach script anymore!  I’ve lived in a country where they teach three different ways to write. Yes, in Japan, there are 3, count them, 3 ways to write. Sometimes I really wonder about this country.

I am by no means saying that it is not difficult to teach. Maybe if we weren’t teaching tests it would be better. It might even bring back the joy of learning.. Ah, but that’s a whole other subject…