> I hear ya' Dave. Since middle school, if I had homework besides math I typed it
> up. History questions, essays, any thing like that was typed.

Same here.
I remember once in primary school I got given lines (can't remember what for), and I did *them* on computer as well.
Didn't get away with it, of course.
Ah, nostalgia... :o)

> I hold my pencil funny, or at least other people think I do. I spent most of
> elementary school with one of those plastic things on the pencil to try to force
> my grip to change. I got sore hands. People seemed to think my bad
> handwriting (and printing) was from how I held my pencil. The fact that it got
> worse when ever I held my pencil the way they said I should didn't bother
> them, nor the fact that I'm a tolerably good at drawing.

This sounds familiar... :o)

Although my writing was never bad enough to incite parnet teacher conferences.

Pa"what is a parnet, anyway?"ul