...left-hander...crab claw
Back in 3rd grade, when we started learning cursive writing, I was the only left-hander in the class. The teacher's only instruction to me was, "Well, just follow along as best you can." It was a very discouraging learning experience, and my handwriting has never been very good.
Then in 1998 I got a PalmPilot, and learned its specialized alphabet to use with its stylus. I got to where I was very quick and very accurate with that, but it took a toll on my pencil/pen handwriting from which I have never recovered.
I remember a boy named Ben in my, I guess, kindergarten class who got shit for holding the pencil inbetween his first two fingers and guiding with his thumb, I think.
I remember thinking how mean it was of them to point it out and try to change it, because, I tried it, and it worked just fine! They probably weren't even particularly mean about it, but it stuck with me. Ben, I hope you've done you in this life and are having a fabulous time.
Speaking of handwriting does anyone know of a good book or something to help improve handwriting? Mine has always been terrible and I hate it. I've seen books about decorative lettering or things like that but is there something to just help every day hand writing
If you search on 'handwriting worksheets' you will find hundreds of thousands of 'trace-along' exercises to reestablish good handwriting habits.
This is the one I got: link
but a quick Google for "Cursive Handwriting Workbook for Adults" turned up about a jillion.
"Well, just follow along as best you can."
The story of my life. I crochet because I couldn't get anyone to teach me to knit with anything but 'just do it backwards'.
I tried it, and it worked just fine!
I use that method to do non-dominant handwriting for cognitive exercising. It's remarkable how legible it is!
I describe it as 'sticks and balls', drawing the letter shapes rather than writing words. It always surprises me how it isn't even slower.
I should start practicing handwriting again. I tried switching to cursive writing (because I have nice fountain pens and shimmery inks, including a Dracula one), but ended up going back to my, erm, idiosyncratic semi-printing.
I just had the termination conversation with my now ex-employee. It went as well as I could have hoped for, probably because he was in shock. Ugh, I didn't want things to come to this, but it is what it is. Next up, the meeting with my team to give them the news.
My boss, who is awesome, has told me that I WILL take an hour off after that to decompress, no don't argue this, Jillian.
For the record, my letter to JZ was written with a mix of inks - Dracula and Bloody Absinthe. Because I embrace my cliches.
Is Tumblr being weird about uploading images? I just tried to post one and it wouldn't do it.
I got hit with the redesign. Somehow worse in practice than it looked in the screenshots I saw.
Oh, it's horrible. And I would pay them monthly if they gave me the chance to permanently turn off Tumblr Live.
