I have a habit when taking quick notes of writing in all caps. This is partially because such notes are often for the benefit of others, and no one likes wrestling with handwriting, and partially because I’ve somehow convinced myself it’s faster. So but anyway, I got into the habit of doing this with my diary1, and even now that I’ve realised it’s kind of weird I can’t quite convince myself to stop – it’ll ruin the consistency, you can’t run counter to house style, and plus if for some reason anyone else happens to look through it it’ll look like I’m admitting I was wrong. So caps it is. But ok, that’s all very well when it’s something sedate and sensible like OXEGEN or ANNIE’S LAUNCH or whatever, but then you get stuff like HONKIVERSARY or SOME CLASS OF YOKE IN LAN and soon you’re looking like some deranged concierge2 who doesn’t know how to quit, stringing syllables together and shouting them at the sky, hoping it sounds like enough like a real itinerary to fool the manager into leaving you be. So on balance, I should probably look into the lowercase, is I guess my point here.
- Do people still keep appointment diaries? Or does everyone just use their phones now? I tried that, but I end up never checking it so it’s kind of pointless. Whereas if I see an object lying around that looks like it might be some kind of configuration of words and paper (delightful!) I tend to flick through it out of sheer muscle memory. [↩]
- I put the original outline for this post in my phone, which it turns out is an uncouth bloody yahoo and doesn’t recognise the word “concierge”. However, after foundering a bit it does leave you with “bombieri,” which sounds like a kind of roguish Italian fighter pilot. So that’s all right. [↩]
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