Today, I thought I'd share some of the randomness in my head and one such randomness is "email killed my handwriting!" {BTW, I'm totally humming "video killed the radio star" as I type this, lol}
I used to have such pretty handwriting, once upon a time. I could do print, all capital for emphasis and even write a decent cursive. Now my handwriting has been reduced to that of a 7-year old!
It's funny because Vanessa and I have these playful little arguments about whose handwriting is better. She'd say, "I love your handwriting!" and I'd reply with "You're high...I love yours!" and we would banter back & forth about who actually has the better handwriting. I still say she has the better one =P
And I blame YOU, Mr. Electronic Mail. Yes, you conspired with Mr. World Wide Web to make it so damn convenient to communicate electronically that the only time I actually need to write anything is when I have to sign a check...and even that happens once in a blue moon! I feel like working off the blasted computer for 12-hours a day is slowly killing my hand muscles so that I can barely hold a pen anymore, let alone actually write nicely!
I hate this...I really, really do! I used to pride myself on my pretty handwriting. Now whenever I do write something, I sit back and marvel at how lazy and uneven it looks. I'm tempted to sign up for interior design classes because they actually teach you how to write. {Did you guys know that? If you're an ID major, there are classes where they actually teach you how to do the special handwriting used by designers for their drawings & specs. And that is your useless tidbit of the day!}
Seriously guys, am I the only one who has noticed her handwriting slowly deteriorating thanks to the excessive amount of typing we do?
I noticed how much my handwriting had deteriorated when I had to ship books out and started labeling packages (free hand). I guess we are just using DIFFERENT finger muscles when we type. The old "hold the pencil" muscles went on a long vacation.
ReplyDeleteyou know what I never thought about it like that I've been wondering why my once beautiful handwriting looks like something out of a doctors office. At least when I was in school my handwriting was still excellent but now it has deteriorated dramatically.
ReplyDeleteMy handwriting has always been pretty bad. But this made me think because I am reading Matched by Ally Condie right now and they don't even know how to write - it's a lost art form! I think that would be sad.
ReplyDeleteI feel ya sista.
ReplyDeleteWell, my penmanship has always been bad, but at least it used to be legible. Now, chickens are calling my handwriting Missie scratch.
Not cool.