my handwriting

Yay, I'm down to 40 posts left to write. I have it all organised on a bit of paper. On the day of the room tidying my friend tore out all of the excess, unused pages from my exercise books so I can chuck the exercise books. So I took one of these little pad like things and decided it'll be to organise and keep track of my blog. I even have all the dates listed of all the posts I've missed and crossed off the ones I've done.

I thought that this topic would be quite good since I just thought of it and it relates to the previous two posts. I would post a picture but it's late and I want to sleep so I'll add it tomorrow or sometime. So I was typing up my handwritten posts and made an observation. Its not even a new one, since I've realised this before. But my handwriting is just so, erm, cursive and small that it's difficult to read the words.

It's really bad, since it's my own handwriting. For example, last year, when I did some one-on-one revision sessions for my first history exam with my teacher I did quite a few practise papers. We met up after school one day and he gave me my mark and it was pretty good but whilst I was looking through I thought I did quite well on the big essay question at the back but he gave me a lower mark. This prompted me to start arguing about it and I was trying to find bits in my essay that showed the highest level skills that I was missing but I couldn't read my essay to find bits.That was one of my best moments, obviously.

However, despite the large amounts of people constantly complaining about my handwriting and telling me to change it I refuse. This is for two reasons, first, I think it looks really pretty, and it does, but its just hard to read, but I think that it's a worthwhile sacrifice. Second, I don't think I can really change it that much and especially when I'm scribbling really quickly in an exam I won't be thinking of my handwriting. Plus, I'm into all that olden day, romantic chivalry rubbish and I think my writing looks similar to the cursive that gentlemen used to write longhand love letters in. (yes, my head is in the clouds, permanently)