> So what do you think? Is cursive necessary, except to read old Snoopy cartoons? Do you use it?

I use cursive writing and printing interchangeably, and now you've got me thinking about WHY I use the style at whatever time. I think I use cursive when I need to write something fast (i.e. class lecture notes), or when I'm writing something really formal (i.e. a thank you note to a... er... stuffy person). However, my note-writing cursive is vastly different from my 'proper' cursive, and I'm fairly sure that I am the only one able to read a lot of my cursive-written class notes. ;)

I use printing when I feel like it, and when I'm writing something that I definetely want to be easily legible - like non-formal letters, slower-paced class notes, story snippets (poke through any of my class notebooks and you'll find, buried on various pages, one or two page segments of story ideas written on the fly), and so on.

But whenever I write my name, I seem to always do it in cursive. And when making graphics and stuff on the computer, I almost completely lean towards using fonts that look more hand-made, as opposed to obviously computer-generated. And I also sometimes dabble in calligraphy.

One thing I wonder about though, is how your parents' writing style affects your own. My dad's writing style is nothing like mine (thank GOODNESS, heh), but my mom's is fairly similar. I do my uppercase S's, for example, almost exactly like she does. I don't remember ever being taught this. What defines how your handwriting is so different from everyone else's? I have a feeling that question is almost unanswerable, although in this day and age you never know.

Sosi"rather rambling on there... but it's a topic I've never thought a whole lot about before"qui