lost arts
today a classmate borrowed a page of my microbio notes from the previous lecture and innocently asked: what does this say? i can't read this line...
i looked at the page, and could barely make out the words myself
egads have i become my mother, with her illegible chicken scratch?
is messy writing a degenerative disease...oh god will it get worse as i age..but i'm only 26, when did it start happening?!
...when did i get so lazy?
once, in elementary school, the principal had been standing behind my desk
she scooped up my assignments then stopped the teacher and class to make an announcement
"this is how it should be done."
then she walked around the room with my homework to show how i had used a ruler to underline,
she noted my perfectly straight math columns (i often placed a sheet of graph paper under the actual paper, so that each number would align immaculately)
i know.
i was a little psychotic back then
i was also fat and mute
but my penmanship was effing impeccable
i don't want to go back to being a fat psycho mute 4th grader
but i want to retrain my hands to write beautifully again
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