two-twenty

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I am, in general, an excellent spellr. I've never won any contests, or anything, but it's not like I use spellcheck as a crutch without which I would be unable to hobble about this cruel literary werld.

My subdued hubris, however, has an odd side effect: occasionally I become absolutely convinced that a word I have spelled correctly is in fact as incorrect as a line of Arabic poetry translated into English by an illiterate crackwhore and then back into Arabic by President Bush. This happens most frequently on two-twenty, as moveable type has no spellcheck nor, alas, does the site itself have a creditable editor. Today it happened with the word "address", a word used quite a few times in the post below. Before I could stop myself I realized that I had opened Microsoft Word and had the following conversation with... myself... in a safe, spellchecked environment:

"How do you spell adress? Not address? Oh, yes, ok."

This seems to me unhealthy behavior - borderline talking to my iBook. I need to get out of the house. Or get a drink. Or both!