Technology killing handwriting

[Stormieweather]

My handwriting changes dependant upon my state of mind at the time of the writing. When feeling confident and poised my letters are rounded and girlish with almost no tilt. During stressful times, my handwriting is all over the place, letters leaning right and left without consistancy. And when I'm confused or struggling mentally/emotionally, my cursive leans backwards (left). The actual formation of the letters also changes based on varied circumstances.

Yes, I'm fascinated by cursive handwriting and what it can tell about the person who wrote it.

Stormie

[Bullitt]

I had to learn how to write three times throughout school.. first there was print, then denealion, then cursive. Denealion (or however its friggin spelled) was like a mix of cursive and print. Loopy disjointed letters that look like you took cursive and cut it up, yet not because the letters were sometimes different in cursive.
Pretty much sucked.

[Zombie]

Originally Posted by Stormieweather

My handwriting changes dependant upon my state of mind at the time of the writing. When feeling confident and poised my letters are rounded and girlish with almost no tilt.

Hey, hey, hey... Are you trying to say that if I don't write all nice and rounded then I'm not properly girlish? :P

I'll have you know that I write in all capitals. That's right. I have permanent capslock on. My shift key is glued down. Well, it got stuck a few years back, actually, in a freak accident involving a overzealous jelly doughnut.

I also write with a Pilot Precise V5. That's got a super-fine tip for super-small writing when I need to. My text tends to vary in size and "roughness" of letters. I can be super neat and nice with uniform spacing and clean lines, or I can just stab the paper four times to make an "E" and be done with it.

I've got a moleskine notebook, one of those small pocket-size ones, and I draw little comics in it. They're stick figure, sure, but I detail everything but the people. That's mostly because I just can't draw people too terribly well. Anyway, the point of this is that I draw out something I could easily create on the computer and I handwrite all of the dialogue in order to impart a piece of myself into it.

I write and draw to clear my head and typing things out just doesn't do it as well for me. Typing things out helps to sort out my thoughts, but it doesn't let me clear my mind.

Anyway, I'm glad cursive has gone out the window. I actually had to learn that crap just so I could get my state ID. Apparently the government doesn't like when you neatly print your name in the space where it says, "Signature here" and government employees seem to completely lose any semblance of intelligent thought when you try to explain to them that that IS your signature. They then tell you that "That's your name printed. It is not a signature." and you respond by explaining that your signature IS your name printed because that is how you ALWAYS write your name.

Maybe I can finally stop having to remember how to spell my goddess forsaken last name in freaking cursive every time I need to "officially sign" something.