Spelling

Dear Wal,

Since I'm on a writing speel for no aparant reason, I've decided to do a post about spelling. The next one is probably going to be about writing habits. That one's going to be long. In the spirit of this post, I've decided to leave all my spelling errors uncorrected. Because I'm awesome like that. And yes, for those of you whose spelling is also less than perfect I'll put the incorrect words in red.
I used to suck at spelling. I mean, really, really, really suck. I know we all have our terrible spelling stories. Computers make life so much easier. I don't have to worry about spelling, I can just right click and there's the corrected word in the drop-down menu. Most of the time. Sometimes I misspell things so horribly there's just now hope, and Chrome and Word just give up on me. Then I run to Google. If Google fails me, then I know I'm screwed.
I can't spell terridactal, apparant, dissapeared and a host of other words but for the most part I think my spelling isn't that bad. I taught myself how to spell necessary...in about a year. That was a long, hard battle. The English language is a pain for spelling, you just have to know the words in order to spell them. Sounding them out doesn't work. All those kindergarten (woah...I spelled that right?!) teachers you had? They lied. Try sounding out a word you can't spell. I guarantee (now..I had to think twice about that one) you that you'll spell them wrong.
I've heard legends of some mysterious phantom being known as phonics, but the last I heard of it was when I was too small to remember exactly what it is or how it's supposed to help. My dear mother is always ranting about how phonics is supposed to help spelling, however. Put a pen in that thought. I'll have to do some research (typo, oops...I should rant about that...) someday and rant. All these posts of mine, they produce so much fodder for future rants. It's quite useful.
I should whip out some really hard words here somewhere...gyre, philanthropist, convoluted, consentrate, quaf, inate, polution, platipus, pompus, parat, postulate, asinine, alkaline, erently, niether, nearly, neighborly, pillon, convenience, Afghanistan, Czechleslavokia, annnimonpia...
So maybe I'm a bad example. My spelling is actually not that bad, in this post anyway. I learned most of my spelling from Word and the internet. Memorizing spelling words never really worked for me in elementary school. I always sucked at spelling tests, heaven forbid I should have to do a spelling bee. I just take a sick kind of delight in beating the computer at pretty much anything. I get completely possessed in videogames to get good enough to beat the computer or at least get all the acheivements. I used to be obsessed with beating the computer at checkers, and chess. I never did. Not once. Not even at checkers. It was sad.
I imagine myself in an epic battle to the death against Word, and I have to spell as many words as possible right in order to win. I fiddle with words, sometimes changing them up to five times, just to prove that I made and effort and yes, I can try and spell things right sometimes. Sometimes I get lucky and hit a word on the first try, other times I have to bow to the Will of Word and click to the droop down menu of doom.
Oh, by the way: I can spell separate. Bet you can't.

/endrant