5 posts tagged “typos”
I very nearly unleashed another typographical alter ego into an unsuspecting world of email recipients. Thankfully I had my wits about me. Ekauna will never see the light of day.
Close one!
My long-time readers may recall Ekauba, "my strange and elusive alter-ego". Little did you know how far the rabbit hole goes, and how thick a web of deceit Ekauba has used to shroud the truth. Today, my eyes were opened when I...
- Sent a client email.
- Had an incorrect email address in the distribution list.
- Got a bounceback.
- Sent an immediate fix to the entire distribution list, and in my haste, signed it... "E;aoma".
E;aoma.
Why, Ekauba? Why?
I can't spell. Spare me the lectures, cause they won't make any difference. I just can't spell. I have probably visited dictionary.com more than any other site besides Google, and I am a religious user of spell checkers. To complicate matters further, I'm an abysmal typist (see my blog URL if you need any evidence of that). This isn't an easy equation for someone as verbose as myself. And this is why I'm utterly enraged that the VOX spell check didn't catch undboutedly in my previous post. Why, why, why? It's not even close. I mean, come on.
Oh... and will you look at that. Big as you please, it's underlined it with a red squiggle this time. Perfect.
Consistent spell check, please?
Holy crap. My fiancé just pointed out to me that both my profile name and my blog name (and, consequently, my blog URL as well) weren't my name! All this time I've been marielaina instead of mariaelaina.
How did I not notice this?! It's my name, for God's sake! I've had it my whole life! I come to this site every damn day!
*shakes head*
*entirely ceases to trust brain*
Granted, I have a tricky name. MariaElaina is a mouthful, and an eyeful. Smooshing it together into one grand statement instead of breaking it into a two-name first name doesn't help matters much. The whole reason behind this was so that folks wouldn't insist on calling me Maria, which is simply not my name. Sadly, I think the solution has caused more/bigger problems than the original problem itself would have caused.
Anyway, I digress. I can't
believe I made the mistake to begin with, much less missed it for so
long. Now I've fixed my username and my blog name, but I can
never ever fix my URL. So sad, so sad.
Ekauba, my strange and elusive alter-ego, only seems emerge when I type emails in a rush. She's particularly fond of my ex-roommate, Lindsay, so she resurfaced yet again as we planned our semi-annual lunch outing.
Ah, the joys of touch-typing... badly.
