that's a lot of curly-swirlies

today i had to google "cursive alphabet". of course i am a little embarrassed about this, but i tend to have a profound need to confess things that embarrass me. i was standing behind the counter at the coffee house, holding a dry erase marker when a thought passed through: "i wonder if i remember how to make all of the letters of the english alphabet in upper case cursive." some of them are kind of weird, (hello, capital Q) so i wasn't sure i remembered all of them. as humiliating as it is to have to say it, i did not remember. and as soon as i saw the graphics (on an education site designed to teach 8-year-olds) i discovered that i might not even be capable of making those shapes. i am going to try again, but it's not looking good so far. before my google search, it was the H and the Q that eluded me. then i did the search and realized that my X and F were both wrong. there are so many swirlies on these stupid letters. looks kind of dumb, really. that's probably why real people don't actually follow the rules of proper penpersonship.