new year's resolution
Fri, 2010-01-01 15:17 — lynx
to spend 20-30 minutes each day practising my handwriting.
i hate my handwriting. i've had crappy, unreadable writing for thirty years now, and i figure that's a quarter century too long. folks online claim that 15-20 minutes a day of practice can get you results in a few weeks, and that sounds way too good to be true, but easy enough to put to the test.
so i'll use the fancy-ass fountain pens i bought as my excuse for practicing. i have a particular goal in mind, and if i ever reach it, i'll reward myself with something slightly fancy and writing-related. i'm not holding my breath, but seriously, that blockprinted all-uppercase scrawl can't get much worse.
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So how's the penmanship
So how's the penmanship coming along?
it's dragging along, like the tip of a scratchy pen
well... better than my management of this site, anyway. but that's evidently not saying much at all...
my mood is in a late-winter slump, not unmanageable but enough to sap most all of my energy. coupled with the stress of having more responsibilities at work than i'm used to, i've got little left for an online life or any social life right now.
i'm still practicing that penmanship most days, but that too is partly frustrating --- i suspect thirty minutes a day isn't enough, because i'm not seeing too many results. my handwriting still looks like i'm six years old and wasting pages in a primary school copybook, unless i choose to revert to the all-uppercase block lettering i wanted to get away from. that also, depressingly, speeds me up to fast enough to be halfway useful...
hmm, ugly block lettering that i hate the looks of and is still not very fast, or childish clumsy italic that's way too slow to be useful and embarrassing in its shakiness? pestilence or cholera?
once the weather thaws out properly and some sunlight returns, things should improve. they usually do.