Jackassalope

What's In A Name Anyway?

An occurrence has happened to me of late; one that I’m not proud to admit. It seems as though I have trouble typing my own name. If this were to happen once and a while it wouldn’t be a big deal, but my mistypingitis happens a couple of times a day. Instead of typing “Lucas” it tends to come out as “Luacs.” Perhaps I’m trying to type too quickly, or maybe deep down just I want to change my name; some sort of Freudian slip of the fingers.

I suppose I could change it to Luacs, but I can foresee several problems arising. The first is that I wouldn’t really know how to pronounce it. Would it be “Loo – acts or La - aches?” I guess one of those could work. But then I got to thinking further. What if after I changed my name I still had troubled typing it? Is it too much of a leap to think that when I try to spell “Lucas” and it comes out as “Luacs,” that when I switch it and try to spell “Luacs” it would then start coming out as “Lucas?” At this point I would probably go through the same internal tug-of-war about why I didn’t like my new name. Deep down I probably liked my old name more and was showing this by letting my fingers lead a typing revolt. The turmoil would ultimately prompt me into changing my name back to Lucas.

This would be an awful lot of work to get back to where I started. So instead of changing my name, I’ve decided to type slower and see if that helps.

Lucas Burt