I learned dvorak by printing out the layout and glancing over at the paper while typing back in high school. It took me about a month to get comfortable and I'm now basically a touch-typing bilinguist (though I'm slower at qwerty, it's more mental effort to do the conversion on the fly since my muscle memory is dvorak).

Agreed. I'll add that if you can't touch-type, your keyboard layout is the least of your problems. Take a few days off and learn.