Oh, pickles!

So, I’m no Crystal Kluge, but I’ve been loving my new calligraphy class. It’s incredibly rewarding to make “a” after “a” after “a” and finally feel like I’m getting it. It requires a lot of patience and a ton of practice, but I have really enjoyed how methodical it is.

Frankly, one of the primary reasons I took ancient Greek classes in college was because I wanted to be able to write the decorative letters! It was so fun just to write sentences and see how they looked. In calligraphy, we’ve learned the entire lowercase Foundational Hand alphabet, so we’re on to putting complete words and phrases together and working on spacing.

Seeing as how my new job is full time and the schedule is feeling frighteningly rigid, I’ll have to stop taking calligraphy. This definitely goes on the “con” list for evaluating the new job, because I don’t even know how to make capital letters yet!