April from Jackie - sports/non-sports

 I read this post a couple days before it pops up and it needs editing - but that's not going to happen. 

I hope it's OK with Jackie that I included the note that came in Jackie's envelope. I am intrigued with Jackie's penmanship. A lot of it is all caps. but some is not. Maybe she can share the story of her penmanship with us and how it evolved. Jackie is fairly new to the exchange and I can't imagine she's gone back and read old posts - so she might not know that penmanship is a really big deal in Jeanland.

Is it Jeanland or should we go back working on our virtual monastery - the Siblings of Perpetual Mispelling. I also had a university idea. So many ideas.

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How many people already know what I am going to say about the difference between sporty-people and non-sporty people?

It's one of my old tunes. Those of us who have no interest in sports have other things that fulfill exactly the same yearnings as sports - but the sporty people must out-number us because we seem like oddballs. And sporty-people would never see penmanship as an equivalent activity.

Now we have to digress because we wonder where the term oddball came from. See below. Tomorrow we will ponder synonyms.

It's not the content, it's the process. Now we have to research that phrase. 

This concept is often discussed in various fields, including journalism and creative industries, highlighting that the process can be as valuable as the end result.

phrase. Maybe we'll talk about that tomorrow.

Back to being an oddball for not liking -or- not being into sports. It's all in the choice of words. If I refrain from saying that I don't like sports - people can often understand. But, that requires a lot of energy to draw a person into a longer conversation and I don't always have a motivation to do that because it takes away from the things I really like to do. For example: it's Mother's Day. I started filling blog posts around 6:00 am. I wrote the critique of Judi's envelope and now I have all the suggestions running laps in my head and I'm racing through all my other chores so I can execute the suggestions.

Did you note the careful choice of *running laps in my head*?

oddball(n.)

"eccentric or unconventional person," 1948, American English colloquial, from odd + ball (n.1). Earlier (1946) as an adjective, used by aviators. The phrase appears earlier in descriptions of modified pin-ball type games (1937) as an extra ball to be played as a bonus.