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dolariHey, Elenderel! Andrea is left-handed!
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some thoughts from a lefty
Date: 2001-10-09 06:11 am (UTC)Re: some thoughts from a lefty
Date: 2001-10-09 04:50 pm (UTC)>Way cool!
Yeah, I kinda thought so, too. When I first looked in on her, and asked her to show me the intro she had in mind, she reached up to her wings with ehr left hand, then later, threw an object favoring her lefthand. And flat out asked her why, and she mentioned she was left handed. Funky, eh?
Plus this can really get into cool stories where "Lefties are considered unholy, or evil or at least un-angelic."
I had a friend anmed Victoria who was ambidexterous...but originally was left handed. Her family was very religious and refused to let her use her left hand. Y'all really get picked on, you know that? :)
Q&A with Andrea Pt 1 :)
Date: 2001-10-09 04:56 pm (UTC)Hi. Um...thanks for the questions. I'm not really used to this, but I'll try and answer them. I'm still learning most of these things myself.
>What's her handwriting like?
I think I have some really awful handwriting compared to my friends. It's very large and loopy and slants to the right. I try to make up for it by writing in cursive all the time.
>Is she good with scissors and can openers?
I can't stand scissors. When I was a little girl, my mother bought me a set of rounded left handed scissors. As I grew up, I used to buy left handed scissors, but made sure that my rounded ones were where I could always get to them, because, well, you know how scissors dissapear. About three years ago I simply gave up them and started using X-Acto knives.
Q&A with Andrea Pt 2 :)
Date: 2001-10-09 04:58 pm (UTC)>How long'd it take her to learn how to tie her shoelaces ... or does she use velcro?
I learned to tie my shoes when I was a kid, but I hardly ever wear shoes with laces. When I do buy shoes with laces, I like to take them out...then I usually take the laces, tie them together and play with them. :)
>What kind of pencil does she use to write/draw >with, if she draws -- different kinds leave >different smears on the edge of the hand.
I usually write with a standard #2 pencil, and I really don't know how to draw very well, unless stick figures count. I don't know if you write like this, since I really don't know any other left=handed people, but I hunker over my paper and write with my forearm almost hugging the outside of the paper.
Once, while I was at school, a teacher asked me to write an answer on our overhead projector with one of those dry erase type markers they use. I got about two words in before I realized I was erasing my own answer.
Q&A with Andrea Pt 3 :)
Date: 2001-10-09 05:01 pm (UTC)My mom never let me mow the lawn, she always did it herself because her lawn was her pride and joy. After she died, I tried to get people to do the lawn for me, since I really didn't know how. When I lost the house, my only relief was I'd never have to try and start that thing again.
>Are her parents or grandparents lefties? (My father was, as were both my maternal grandparents ... and so is my nephew.)
I don't know too much about my family, but as far as I know, I'm the only one. But I only really know another uncle and his son.
>How aggravated does she get with those one-piece desks at school that are right-oriented?
I used to see those on TV, but I never had one myself. The ones we had in elementary school were tables and seperate chairs. In middle and high school, they were these chairs welded into tables. So I never had any more problems than anyone else did.
Re: Q&A with Andrea Pt 3 :)
Date: 2001-10-10 05:45 am (UTC)Re: Q&A with Andrea Pt 3 :)
Date: 2001-10-10 01:57 pm (UTC)I don't think Andrea has gone to college, though, and I had those desks in college. How in the heck any lefty got work done in those things baffles me. :)
Q&A with Andrea Pt 4 :)
Date: 2001-10-09 05:21 pm (UTC)I had a bad experience with the Internet when I first got onto it at a friends house. I don't think I'll need to use it again. This is the first time I've used the Internet since then, and I never used it again in my story.
I don't have any left handed ladels or kitchen tools, just the ones mom gave me, which she said used to belong to my grandmother. I never knew my grandmother, but I hope I'm doing her proud.
>Is she remotely concerned about driving a manual transmission car (the stick's on the right)?
If I do get a car, it will probably be an automatic. No one ever taught me to drive a stick-shift, and...frankly...I'm a little intimidated by cars and buses. I walk or bike to work when I can, and take the bus when it rains. I will probably need to get a car one day, but right now, I'm too busy trying to make ends meet.
>Does anyone pick on her for her leftiness?
My friend Roger used to pick on me for being lefthanded a lot. He used to tell me angels couldn't be left handed because lefties were evil. He wasn't really going on about me being left handed...he just thought that I was silly for being an angel.
Q&A with Andrea Pt 5 :)
Date: 2001-10-09 05:25 pm (UTC)No, why should they?
>If she has a computer, does she share it with righties who insist on switching the mouse around?
I have a computer, and it's an older one. I use it for working around the house mostly. I do my budget on it, I write letters to friends on it, I play some games mom bought me as a kid. It doesn't have a mouse, though, and it's not as fancy as the one Jenn uses.
Jenn tells me, though, that her mother is right handed, but uses the mouse with her left hand. How strange is that?
Wow, that was fun? Can I do it again?
Re: Q&A with Andrea Pt 5 :)
Date: 2001-10-09 05:26 pm (UTC)I need a better ISP first. :)
Re: Q&A with Andrea Pt 5 :)
Date: 2001-10-10 05:42 am (UTC)Re: Q&A with Andrea Pt 5 :)
Date: 2001-10-10 02:01 pm (UTC)In my own life, the opened handled fridges are all I've ever had - until I just moved back home, and it has one of those bolted strips. I can see where they'd suck. :) But I'm willing to forgive it because it makes crushed ice. :)