Wow, this is hard... and yet I'm already feeling my hands fall into a poetic rhythm. The point of the Dvorak Keyboard is to keep your hands alternating continually in an iambic motion as you type. It also tries to keep your fingers drumming in an inward fashion, as it's easier on the ligaments and muscles. One thing I have realized since starting this yesterday, is a deeper more profound empathy for the work that Stephen Hawking goes through, simply to articulate his theories and ideas. When he types out his lectures, he types them one letter or one word at a time by scrolling through a database. What this means is that he has to know exactly what he is lecturing on... he has to know all of it in his head to the degree that he can transcribe it one painfully slow letter at a time. Now I don't profess to possess anywhere near the genius of Stephen Hawking, but I'm beginning to understand this process of knowing everything you want to say before you say it. You have to be able to repeat it over and over to yourself the whole time you are writing, because you aren't going to get around to typing the words that you are thinking of for quite a while. See, until yesterday, I could type very well and moderately fast. Now, I can't really type at all. I'm really having trouble with the hunt-and-peck method as well, because only the "A" and the "M" are where I expect them to be, and that in and of itself seems to be more of a hindrance than a help. And yet, I can already sense the beginnings of a lilting tempo when I have short flashes of comprehension. Perhaps it's time to start learning how to write with my left hand as well.