Handwriting and the system

This is probably one of the scariest things I've put up on the web, but here goes. Someone wrote and asked me if we have different handwriting and art styles. I think we do. I once had Shandra's signature and mine analysed (this was way back in the early 90's) and was told they weren't from the same person, but this was also a $2 booth at a street fair, so.

So here's a sample of them. There are a number of people who refused to be represented, so there you go. Don't write and tell me they're all from the same person. I hope they are; I would like the system to have some fundamental unities somewhere! But I experience them as very different from mine.

(1998)This is the first page I ever showed anyone of how crazy my life was getting. The top writing is more or less mine, although in transition. After I showed it (and the other similar switches in my journal at the time) to my therapist, he said "oh my god, we have to discuss this next time." The next session he discussed how I didn't understand how a marriage should work. That was the last session I ever had with him.

(2001) This is a "doodle page" from Shandra's law class. She was getting a lot of static during the class so she developed a technique of taking notes for herself and letting people mess around on a separate sheet of paper. This one is fairly typical. The alphabet is interesting. Every few months or so since I can remember, I've gone through phases of trying to "readjust" my handwriting and writing out alphabets. I'm not sure how to interpret that. On the one hand, maybe it's just a weird thing people do. On the other, maybe it's someone trying to get rid of the differences to "look normal."

(2001) This is a page of Shandra's notes. She likes to take "meta-notes" where she comments on the class events. What I find interesting about this page is that JJ answered her, where there's the small printing.

(2001)This is one of Lyria's letters, where she's trying to write legibly. I hope she doesn't mind; she hasn't been around to ask.