rolanni | What's your superpower?

So, yesterday I was sitting in my office, entering stuff into a database. Because entering stuff into databases is so Very Exciting, I had popped Springsteen's Seeger Sessions into Mac's CD player and was happily singing along as I typed.

About half-way through "She Blowed Away" I looked up to find a faculty member standing in my doorway, watching me with a...peculiar...expression on his face. I turned down the music and asked if I could help me.

"No," he said, "I'd just like -- are you typing the lyrics as you sing them?"

I pointed out that since I was typing the details of job applications into a database, the lyrics of "She Blowed Away" would hardly inform the search committee.

"Right. So...bear with me... you're entering data into a search database, and at the same time you're singing the words to a song that has nothing to do with the data, and you're not getting mixed up."

I agreed that this was the case, and added that I can also hold a conversation while I'm typing from copy.

"I've been doing this a long time," I told him.

"I...see. Well. Good morning!" And off he went.

It was an odd enough exchange that I mentioned it to Steve, who knows very well that I can type (not write, mind you -- type) and talk at the same time, over dinner. He tells me that this ability is unusual, though it seems to me that I've known other typists who can talk on the phone, for instance, and type a letter from copy simultaneously.

And, so a poll!

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