Kuinka yllätin itseni housut kintuissa
A Letter to Self
Ajattelin osallistua käsialameemiin, kun sanottava muuten tuntui olevan tiukassa tänään. Pöydältä löytyi sopivia harakanvarpaita, ja sitten juolahti mieleen etsiä käsialanäyte pedantista menneisyydestä. Muuttokuormaan oli tullut mukaan kaksi päiväkirjaa, joista toisen välistä löytyi nolo muisto menneiltä ajoilta.
Olin vuoden 1991 tietämillä (2,10 markan postimerkki on siltä vuodelta) kirjoittanut ja kirjekuoreen sinetöinyt Anna-lehden grafologille osoitetun kirjeen. Sitten oli ilmeisesti toiminnan nolous paljastunut päähenkilölle, ja kirje oli jäänyt lähettämättä. Lukijalle tiedoksi, että vuonna 1991 olisin ollut jo 23 vuoden korkeassa iässä. Voi häpeän päivää.
Siellä se kirje nyt päiväkirjan välissä odottaa avaamista kuin Uuden Kuun Emilian varhaisteini-iässä kirjoittama kirje täysi-ikäiselle itselleen. (Tällainenkin meemi tahi joukkohanke oli taannoin liikkeellä. Olinpas kerrankin aikaani edellä.) Odottakoon vielä muutaman vuosikymmenen. Luultavasti tuskailen siellä ammatinvalinnan vaikeutta. Kukaan ei ollut vielä kertonut, ettei ammattia tarvitse valita.
Alla varsinaiset käsialanäytteet. Toinen näköjään gradun jättämisen jälkeen helmikuussa 1999 - kymmenen vuotta ja risat vierähti niissä opinnoissa. Toinen viime viikolta. Alamäki on selvästi nähtävissä.
PS. Anteeksi muuten kotisivujen ja Denisin pionisivun takkuaminen näinä päivinä. Syytä ei ole löytynyt, tai ainakaan eivät ole sitä minulle kysyttäessä kertoneet. Ongelmat näkyvät mm. latautumattomina kuvina.
I was browsing my old diaries today, in order to participate in a meme that is currently circulating in the Finnish blogosphere. The idea is to post a sample of one's handwriting. The untidy notes lying around my laptop did not seem distinguished enough, so I though I'd find an earlier sample, just to show that once upon a time I didn't do too badly in the handwriting department.
Shock and horror! Between the pages of my old diary, I found a stamped, addressed envelope that I had - so it seems - intended to send to a graphologist in a women's magazine. I did not have the guts to open the letter, apparently written around the year 1991 (the year the 2 FIM stamp is printed). I'll leave it there for another decade or two. A bit like Emily of New Moon, who wrote a letter to her grown-up self. Only mine was written when I was 23, which I find quite embarrassing. I think Emily was 11 or so.
PS. Apologies for the continuing slow behaviour of my website and Denis's peony site. Not sure if it is the many photos or the rush of visitors (no, not really), but I am aware of the problem and trying to get some answers.
Comments - Kommentit
DATE: 10:02 AM
Hi AnniMeme? What do you mean by "in order to participate in a meme that is ...". I have found a meaning for "meme", but I cannot make much sense of it.Can you explain, pls?
Posted by: Denis | February 23, 2006 06:17 PM
DATE: 12:49 PM
I was dreading the question, as I have on the whole stayed clear of memes so far (there was one lapse I think).I once tried to use the words chain letter or chain reaction instead, but got told off. As far as I understand, a meme is someone's original idea, that then spreads via blogs (like a virus), and while doing so it evolves and mutates, because people make their own interpretations, add things, omit things etc.This time a blogger somewhere thought it would be nice if all bloggers posted samples of their handwriting. And so many of them did, and finally it reached my blog. Not much evolvement there I guess.Often memes are personality tests and other kinds of 'funny' tests, the results of which are posted in blogs.Apparently a meme can also be something more significant and have hidden cultural meanings (or whatever, this is where I get lost). About the origin of the word etc, see:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MemeAnyone, please feel free to correct me & add your wisdom and experience about memes!Anni
Posted by: ah | February 23, 2006 06:17 PM
DATE: 12:30 AM
I know absolutely nothing about blogging of any sort (my failure to grasp the basics of the dead journal form meant rather a lot of social blunders when I saw my friends after an extended absence and they had communicated all important matters such as who was going out, who had broken up, and who had gone temporarily insane via this medium), but on the question of handwriting... I have BEAUTIFUL handwriting - when I write on average two words a minute! Any other time it's pretty much illegible (perhaps I should consider a career as a doctor).And as for uncanny coincidences, I've been revisiting LMM books recently to while away the many spare microseconds that I might otherwise be forced to spend in a responsible and profitable manner. Such is life...
Posted by: Anonymous | February 23, 2006 06:17 PM
DATE: 9:55 AM
Mmm. I seem to read the Emily books at least once in 3 years, during a summer or Christmas holiday. Must be the need to relive, or at least remember, those first, wonderful reading experiences (before puberty and all the related angst and unpleasantness). I have only ever read them in old-fashioned, Finnish translations that, for me, seem to be a part of the charm.
Posted by: ah | February 23, 2006 06:17 PM
DATE: 9:44 PM
Kommentiksi keskusteluun kirjoitin blogiini meemi-sanan käytöstä testien nimenä.My comment in Finnish & English in http://amnellanna.blogspot.com/2005/11/viel-meemist-why-do-finns-call-quiz.html
Posted by: Blogisisko | February 23, 2006 06:17 PM