An Ordinary Morning

This follows on from Progress on Several Fronts and runs to 2,722 words.

I went to bed after finishing my readings and practicing my new vocabulary words – they say it takes a hundred repetitions to learn a new character, and that method has always worked for me.  By the time I was finished I had sheets of paper stacked on my desk, each with one character written many times on them.  One of the faults of my handwriting, from a calligraphic point of view, is that it looks like a mishmash of printed typefaces, mainly because I got most of my advanced written vocabulary from books.  These words weren’t going to change that.  I can admire those beautiful, flowing, handwritten scrolls, but I can’t write like that.  Sometimes I’d like to be able to, but my attempts always end in tears and mess.  Which is probably why my alarm clock woke me from a dream where I was trying to scrub ink out of floor matting.  Let’s just say that even in my dreams my calligraphy was never going to get me my driver’s licence and leave it at that.

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An Ordinary Morning

This follows on from Progress on Several Fronts and runs to 2,722 words.


I went to bed after finishing my readings and practicing my new vocabulary words – they say it takes a hundred repetitions to learn a new character, and that method has always worked for me.  By the time I was finished I had sheets of paper stacked on my desk, each with one character written many times on them.  One of the faults of my handwriting, from a calligraphic point of view, is that it looks like a mishmash of printed typefaces, mainly because I got most of my advanced written vocabulary from books.  These words weren’t going to change that.  I can admire those beautiful, flowing, handwritten scrolls, but I can’t write like that.  Sometimes I’d like to be able to, but my attempts always end in tears and mess.  Which is probably why my alarm clock woke me from a dream where I was trying to scrub ink out of floor matting.  Let’s just say that even in my dreams my calligraphy was never going to get me my driver’s licence and leave it at that.

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This is now followed by Halfway Through The First Week