Frustration

Remember going to school when you were younger and you learned to do math? You did flash cards, multiplication tables, class competitions, and tests without any calculators. But then in highschool, you began to use a calculator and consequently inversely lost your ability to do any math in your head.

Well something similar has happened to me. Since the age of computers was so prevelant in my formative years, I learned to type, and in highschool and college, type a lot of BS. But in elementary school, I had to hand write many things to develop my skills, and my spelling as well. Now after using computer typing aids so frequently, I have lost my ability to just sit down and write on paper.

To test our writing abilities during the academy we are required to write (HAND WRITTEN) a 2 page paper on some specific topic. They are looking for our spelling skills, and thus we can't type it out first, use that handy spell check, and then hand write it. Nope, honesty is important and critical to keep a job in Law Enforcement. There are also stupid rules like, between each paragraph you need to put in a space. Well, I am about done with this paper and when I was reviewing it, I didn't put in any spaces. So, I get to WRITE the stupid thing all over again. Fun.....