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I’ve noticed a trend in search terms recently:

  • why is my handwriting so bad (3)
  • how to have beautiful writing (3)
  • bad handwriting (2)
  • why is my handwriting bad (2)
  • why does my handwriting change (1)
  • my handwriting is so bad (1)
  • legible handwriting (1)
  • why is my penmanship so bad (1)
  • beautiful legible handwriting (1)
  • really nice handwriting (1)
  • why my handwriting is so bad (1)
  • pictures of beautiful writing (1)
  • why is my hand writing so bad (1)
  • is my handwriting bad? (1)
  • really bad handwriting (1)

 

That’s 21 different instances of bad penmanship related searches people have used to find my blog, in particular, this post.  I guess people are really concerned with the quality of their handwriting these days.  Well, that’s good.  I think people should be concerned about it.  You can’t very well write letters to others if the recipient can’t read it.  Well, you could write the letters, but they would be pretty useless.  And why would you want to write useless letters?  We should all improve our handwriting so we can write legible letters that we can send to friends all over the world and help keep the USPS in business (campaigning!).

Anyway, perhaps you’re curious about how I’m doing with my handwriting exercises.  Well…uh…you see…I’ve been busy.  I haven’t actually practiced my calligraphy.  I have written a lot of letters though and I did have to do some fancy lettering for a craft.  I got a set of dip pens for more letter writing fun, too.  It…probably hasn’t improved my handwriting that much.  Heh.  I also don’t have a sample for you right now.  So…uh…yeah.  This isn’t a very satisfying post is it?  Sorry about that.  I guess you’ll just have to wait until next time.

Swap: Art Journal (3)


Just a short post today. I’ve been busy and rather tired.

So, here’s an entry in my art journal I’m making for a swap.  You can see previous posts about it here and here.  I will also remind you again to save our postal service and point you here, here, here, and here.

The theme for the entry was “word of the day.”  I had originally planned to do another word, for which I also had very strong mental imagery, but I didn’t do it that day and I’ve since forgotten the word.  The definition had to do with torrents of words coming from someone’s mouth though.  If you have a word that might fit that definition, I’d like to know what it is.  It kind of bothers me that I can’t remember the original word.

Anyway, for this one, I just checked out dictionary.com‘s word of the day. Gasp!  Dictionary.com?  But…you’re an avid Merriam Webster user!  Yes…I know.  I didn’t like dictionary.com before because it gave all kinds of definitions without differentiating what might be slang, what was common usage, what was archaic usage…it was all jumbled together.  And I thought it was corrupting the youth.  Ok, not really.  But I did see some problems with my brother looking up words and then using them however he liked, apparently with the blessing of dictionary.com.  Merriam Webster was a real dictionary before they also brought it online and it had all the nice dictionary qualities I look for in a dictionary.  That’s why I prefer them.  Even now.  But, they haven’t put out an app for wp7 and dictionary.com has.  So, if I’m using my phone, I use the latter.  And having used it more, I see that they have greatly improved how they present their content.  I don’t really have a problem with them anymore.

SO ANYWAY, that’s how I got my word of the day.  Complete with the definition.  Tada.  Upon looking at it closely, I may have misspelled it.  I think believe it’s supposed to be “bellwether” not “bellweather.”  I seem to have added an “a” due to the influence of my overactive imagination.  I should probably try fixing that.  Huzzah.