Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2005 - 4:30 P.M.

I think I’m pretty smart, ya know? I mean, I’m no rocket scientist and I know I’d not qualify for MENSA but all in all, I think I’m an intelligent person. Or, I sure like to think so, anyway.

Most of the time when I’m tapping out an entry I’m just cruisin’ right along paying no mind whatsoever to spelling or punctuation. Spelling, thanks to "spell check," has become virtually a non-issue. Punctuation is taken care of to the best of my ability after everything is written. Trust me, I know I suck hard on punctuation. I know there is at least one teacher who reads this page and she most likely has seizures every single time.

Now, I realize that the computer has a handy dandy grammar checker as well. I have disabled mine, though, due to the fact that the letters I often type are written by people who are even worse with grammar than myself. Therefore, I’d spend an hour correcting just one of them only to be told to put it back the way it was written to begin with.

I use the words “they’re,” “their,” “there,” “your” and “you’re” a lot. Although I do, in fact, know the difference in these words somehow it seems that a lot of the time I use them incorrectly at first writing. Upon reviewing what I’ve written I’ll come upon this mistake and say to myself, “Self? You are an idiot.” Quickly, I will correct it. However, sometimes not. Sometimes it remains until I open my own diary page and read the entry and see the error. Then I’ll say to myself, “Self? People reading? Think you are an idiot.”

And then what? Well, I’ll tell you, I feel like sending out a mass e-mail stating that I know I used the wrong word (knew it all along, did it on purpose). And please, please don’t think poorly of me and my screwed up grammar usage. But of course I don’t. So you can just think of this entry as my blanket statement of the fact that I really do know the difference.

And now you can all talk amongst yourselves about how big of a loser I am that I felt the need (read: “intense burning desire”) to even do this entry at all. Go ahead. I won’t mind.

Your free to do as you please.

Their certainly aren’t any rules against it.

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