Me? I'm raising my left hand, because this summer, as the case has been many random summers in the past, I've decided to try to be left-handed. Or, well, ambidextrous enough to be able to write with my left hand. Ambidexterity seems so handy (ahoihoi!), after all.
I think we all have certain skills attributed to our non-dominant hand, right? For me, I can move individual fingers on my left hand pretty well since I'm a violinist, but I'm much more clumsy when moving the hand or arm or entire left side as a whole. So in order to facilitate true ambidexterity, I'm going to spend the entire summer left-handed. I'll make a concerted effort to write with my left hand and do most of the things I usually have to do with my right hand with my left hand.
In the hour or so I've been doing this, I've found that wearing my watch on my right wrist feels funny and using the touchpad on my laptop is incredibly difficult. But! I will persevere! I got to write my "a"s, "g"s, and "z"s the way I do because I was consistent and deliberate, so maybe by the end of the summer, I'll be ambidextrous!
I haven't installed my tablet software on Harrison yet (and the UCLA computer store shipped me the wrong version of CS5 (because apparently I can afford the freaking Master Collection) so I'm waiting for Photoshop anyway), so a picture this week:
( South Paw Summer 2010: 2010.06.21 )
So, fine folks, what are your summer goals?
I think we all have certain skills attributed to our non-dominant hand, right? For me, I can move individual fingers on my left hand pretty well since I'm a violinist, but I'm much more clumsy when moving the hand or arm or entire left side as a whole. So in order to facilitate true ambidexterity, I'm going to spend the entire summer left-handed. I'll make a concerted effort to write with my left hand and do most of the things I usually have to do with my right hand with my left hand.
In the hour or so I've been doing this, I've found that wearing my watch on my right wrist feels funny and using the touchpad on my laptop is incredibly difficult. But! I will persevere! I got to write my "a"s, "g"s, and "z"s the way I do because I was consistent and deliberate, so maybe by the end of the summer, I'll be ambidextrous!
I haven't installed my tablet software on Harrison yet (and the UCLA computer store shipped me the wrong version of CS5 (because apparently I can afford the freaking Master Collection) so I'm waiting for Photoshop anyway), so a picture this week:
( South Paw Summer 2010: 2010.06.21 )
So, fine folks, what are your summer goals?
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