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The lighting right now is so that I can really see the veins sticking out in my hands, and I rather like it. They've been working pretty hard today, twisting wire in art class, smacking on bongo drums after school and just now pounding away on the piano. I can't really see the full veins though, there's just this sort of a bump where it crosses over the tendons of my hand. Like the back of the Loch Ness monster rising up out of the water.

I love hands. So much. First of all, they're very interesting to look at, with all these muscles in the most unexpected places, laced with tendons and veins, the elegant diamond shapes of the knuckles, the little bones that jut out in the wrist. Second of all - they're so expressive, and capable of so much. We use our them for everything, so a persons hands could probably tell you a lot about them. I'm no Sherlock - but just looking at mine - I see a huge callous on the index finger of my right hand from holding a pen/pencil, the side of the knuckle of my pinkie on my right hand is actually kind of buffered from constantly rubbing across paper, my nails are short, but not small, with the ragged remains of some golden polish on them, and my fingers are fairly long. Normally they are decorated with some sort of doodle, but not today.

What do your hands tell you?