Life is such a sweet insanity.
I love life and people. This is a place where I can write down what's happening, what I'm thinking, what I'm seeing and what I'm feeling. After all, life is just one blog entry after another.Friday, February 11, 2005
Fine Print.
Having some comp time in the hopper, I decided to take the afternoon off today in preparation for our night at the local casino. I've busied myself about the house waiting for Earl to get home from work, repairing my weather station so that I can get reliable readings again (weather info coming to the site soon!) and just goofing off on the internet.
One of the things I started looking at while browsing was penmanship styles. I've always been very interested in various penmanship techniques, ever since I was a little kid. I think my various grade school teachers used differing methods of penmanship instruction, because looking at the aforementioned site, I remember being taught all these different styles. No wonder my chicken scratch is somewhat of a mess.
Here's a sample of what my writing looks like today.
Earl has commented in the past that I write like a girl. Now I don't think that's very nice. I've seen gay men write much "prettier" than I do so I guess I'm not insulted by his remark. I guess I should be wondering on why I care about such a trivial thing.
Looking at the various penmanship techniques, I wonder what grandparents will write like 60 years from now. My grandparents all had very similar handwriting. They were all undoubtably trained to write with the "Classic Palmer" technique. Now there's all these different variations of handwriting, plus the encouragement to just do your own thing without regard to the basics. Will today's kids still use hearts over their "i"'s when they're 70?
Anyways, now I'm not going to be able to listen to customers and jot down notes at work anymore with any sense of actually paying attention. I'll be too busy trying to make my handwriting nice.
One of the things I started looking at while browsing was penmanship styles. I've always been very interested in various penmanship techniques, ever since I was a little kid. I think my various grade school teachers used differing methods of penmanship instruction, because looking at the aforementioned site, I remember being taught all these different styles. No wonder my chicken scratch is somewhat of a mess.
Here's a sample of what my writing looks like today.
Earl has commented in the past that I write like a girl. Now I don't think that's very nice. I've seen gay men write much "prettier" than I do so I guess I'm not insulted by his remark. I guess I should be wondering on why I care about such a trivial thing.
Looking at the various penmanship techniques, I wonder what grandparents will write like 60 years from now. My grandparents all had very similar handwriting. They were all undoubtably trained to write with the "Classic Palmer" technique. Now there's all these different variations of handwriting, plus the encouragement to just do your own thing without regard to the basics. Will today's kids still use hearts over their "i"'s when they're 70?
Anyways, now I'm not going to be able to listen to customers and jot down notes at work anymore with any sense of actually paying attention. I'll be too busy trying to make my handwriting nice.
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