Awesome shot.

In the old photo album my mother pulled out for yesterday, was a picture of my father in a park, goofing around near some men in uniform. In Chicago, in the summer of 1968. Yeah, they were national guard getting ready to put down some protests that hadn't started yet. Not as beautifully composed, but still kind of incredible.

holy crap I misspelled my NAME.

I misspell my name a shocking amount of the time. My typing gets sloppy, but I swear I misspelled my signature the other day, signing for a purchase. I could probably contest the charge! Except it was really me.

ETA, scrappy, that cover letter wasn't from me FYI

Snerk.

You guys, I didn't sleep well at all last night

Me either, and I am cranky as hell, and the coffee machine is broken and it makes me want to cry.

On the other hand, I can still spell my name. It's shorter than Allyson's, and easier, but I'll take it.

I swear I misspelled my signature the other day

I can't remember the last time I actually paid proper attention to what comes after the third letter of my surname. It's not that I stop writing, more that I think I just put anything there. It's the last distinctive letter, so let's have some fun and mix things up afterwards!

I just stumbled upon the weird search site [link] It's a search engine for all but the million most popular sites on the web. Oddly fascinating.

Allyson, I think that qualifies as grounds for sick leave. You aren't doing yourself or your work any favors.

So today my car went from a month of "hmmm, does it sound a little loud to you?" to "FUCKING HELL! WHO INSTALLED THE GLASSPACK WHEN I WASN"T LOOKING? AND WHY DOES IT SOUND LIKE THE MUFFLER IS ABOUT TO FALL OFF??"

So I need to get that in before I actually do leave part of the exhaust system in the road. Or piss off all the parents with sleeping children in a 2 mile radius. And make an appointment for crownwork. And call about a porch roof and gutterspout. And neither I nor my checking account want to do any of this.

I usually basically just write my name, in a semi-stylized way I made up many years ago.

I can't remember the last time I actually paid proper attention to what comes after the third letter of my surname.

Ahahaha! Mine is getting progressively shorter as well. 4th letter sometimes looks like itself then it is a bunch of bumps and squiggles. My Dad's has gotten truly ridiculous: it used to look like C______ and now it is just (______. I use a print first letter, so I'm not gonna get quite as bad as his.

My signature, weirdly, looks exactly the same way it has since about the ninth grade. Though actually, now that I think of it, both my parents still have legible signatures. Maybe there's some genetic MY NAME I LIKE IT, LET ME SHOW YOU IT thing being passed on?

a semi-stylized way I made up many years ago

Rachel Sylvester made mine up in fifth form. And considering how I draw my name more than write it--the cross stroke of the t transmutes into the entire body of the a which then loops up back over to the i to kinda dot it...thanks, Rachel! I love my signature! 25+ years and still going strong!

Uh, I don't always sign a last name, clearly.

My signature is very round and loopy and looks like a 13-year-old's. But it's what I've got. Took me FOREVER to learn how to sign Garvey nicely, though. And I use a print G instead of a script one.