* Camilla Font MT

*There's no need for a title for this blog post since I included a picture instead.

I realised tonight while I was studying that there is a fatal flaw in my blogging ways. Everything is typed. I seem orderly with a certain obsession with trebuchet style font. Whereas in reality. Well my handwriting is interesting to say the least...

It makes me happy though. There's a mixture between print and linked depending on whether my pen is flowing nicely or the degree of pain which my hand is in. That's undoubtedly why my English exam scripts seem to be illegible. Anyway I find that you can discover a lot about a person from their handwriting but this blog means that you can't experience the wonder of my handwriting so I thought I'd include some piccys... because I'm cool like that.

I remember last year in Maths the particularly BRUTAL but lovely Ms Moss told me that my handwriting was like a boys. I repeated this in Chemistry to the wonderful Ms McCarthy and she said 'that is so mean towards boys.' All the meanwhile I was staring at my page upon which was a very neatly written page of notes about equilibrium constants. I think you can probably deduce from that little anecdote that my handwriting is rather heinous. But the thing about handwriting is that it doesn't need to be neat. In todays modern world full of computers and cell phones and everything else. Then your handwriting is only for you. No one else is going to have to read the little notes you write on the side of your notes. It's just for you.

Having said that it does have to be legible for NCEA exams and the like but it doesn't have to be pretty. Your handwriting doesn't have to impress anyone.

There are people listed in the yellow pages as handwriting analysts. They're meant to see your handwriting and then be able to tell you exactly what kind of person you are, what kind of life you live etc etc. It's sort of cool isn't it? Moreover I can understand how it would work. Some people have ordered handwriting and they have ordered lives. I have messy handwriting and to express how messy my life is then I'll inform you that I've lost my awesome hat in my bedroom for about six weeks now (well my mother at least tells me that it's in my room I just think she's trying to force me to tidy it... I will never forfeit!) Although when it comes to predicting your future from your handwriting I'm a little bit skeptical...

I like handwriting. There's something methodical about having a pen in my hand. It's probably why some nights after I type up this blog post I retreat to my bedroom and write a lengthy entry in my little ginger book (that and the fact that there are somethings that I don't want the entire world to know about...) The little indentations which I get on my ring finger just make me feel so productive. I even have a certain fondness towards the build up of skin on that finger. It reminds me of everything that I've written in my life. It's sort of cool. I'm so lucky to be able to write.

My FAVORITE PIECES OF MY HANDWRITING (that I want to share with you...)

<---My uppercase font. A few years ago I decided that I'd had enough of boring capitals so I made them curve and it just makes me so much happier and feel so much more unique.




<---L's. They make chemistry enjoyable. I positively get giddy whenever I get to write 'liquid' because the whole word just flows together because of that 'l'. It's almost onomatapoeia-like.

<---I love the fact that whenever I’m doodling and fiddling around with different colours, sizes and styles of fonts then I always write ‘hello’. It’s as if my subconscious is making my conscious know that it’s not alone and it’s just so friendly! Or maybe that’s a pile of bs and the actual reason I write it is because it’s the word I say most often. I am a friendly person after all (and not at all socially retarded/awkward it’s called friendliness CHELSEA!). Or perhaps it’s a combination of both.

Oh and isn't it just so much fun using felt tip pens. They're so bright and flowing and just WOW! Prettiness.

3 Good Things

*Photocopying with a laser printer. It's so speedy that it makes me happy.

*A hilarious french lesson after getting a little bit too angsty in front of a reliever. Well I'm just feeling a little bit stressed.

*Putting paper in a clearfile. It just slides in and it looks so pwetty!