Yeah the Proust was the best part. It may be unfair of me for taking Atlantic to task for spinning a silly article out of one exceptional quote, but I'm going to anyway. EDIT: I was invited by some people I respect to do a group reading of Proust over the next few months but I was forced to fall back on the excuse that it's over 5000 pages long.
Yes, mobile is great so far but still can't fix my fat thumbs and autocorrect. I edited. Thanks.
Fat thumbs are my downfall. I don't even do well on Mac keyboards. Reminds me of a great, basically-unrelated story though -- may have already told this on hubski someplace. I work with these middle school kids from bad backgrounds on odd weekdays, a couple weeks ago we were tasked with writing letters to some guys in Afghanistan one of my coworkers had been to basic with. So we sat the kids down and explained what was up and that no matter what these guys would love receiving letters for Thanksgiving. One kid was really concerned with his spelling and probably asked me how to spell 10 words in three minutes. Finally I told him that any misspellings he made would probably just come off as really adorable. After the kids left I read their letters to the soldiers and noticed that another kid had overheard me saying that and started misspelling words on purpose about halfway through his letter. Killed me. God I love that story.
What an endearing story, thanks for sharing it.