Although it would be tempting to steer you toward one of my own, I think browsing through myfonts.com might be a good start. Here are a few I saw that have some calligraphic roots, but also are handwriting influenced. The font Nothing has a bit of a retro quality, but its not too blatant.

http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/ihof/p22-corinthia/
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/flat-it/nothing/
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/bluevinyl/eye-catching/
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/charlesborges/enchanted/
http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/ihof/p22-sweepy/

Stephen

If you don't, Stephen, I will ;-)
Lauren, take a look at P22 Chai Tea and in the same line of Nothing: Satisfaction.

Enchanted kicks booty!

Hey Stephen, what about your new script?

Michael

EDIT: Montague... had to go look for it. You owe me a 100 bucks Stephen. Just kidding. The heck with the help you gave me this morning! Ha!

Did you watch the Fud Benson video on carving?

Hey Marcelo

Are you aware that the color of "your eye" matches the color of the Floridata Plumbago flower?

Es la verdad?

Michael

Thanks Marcelo and Michael.

Montague is still in beta stage. There is a sample here:
http://www.calligraph.com/web/callig-graphic/pdf00000.pdf

Yes I did watch that video, but only parts as I have way too much to do this weekend.
I fell in love with that old New England folk stuff years ago. Montague is name after a small hilltown in New England (MA) that I lived in before moving to Ohio to work for American Greetings. I'm hoping to move back that way in the next year.

Stephen

Stephen

Beware of ears! Listen to your cell messages.

Michael

Lauren
Stephen and Michael are really good options. I will not suggest you some of our stuff :D

Why not Ale... you've got us, "hands" down! Sorry for the dum-pun. Isn't that a Chinese dish?

Michael

Ale rocks! Hope I get a chance to chat with you at TypeCon.

Stephen

I would check out everything at Borges Lettering: http://www.borgeslettering.com/Type_Faces.html

Michael
You are the first one to notice that detail! yes, of course I know ;-D it's one of the reasons I chose the "eye" and btw, plumbago also means graphite.

Marcelo

My wife and I plant 2 every year as accent plants here. Plumbago is an annual here in Virginia, there is only one comparable blue bloom. It is Lobelia, also an annual.

Blue blooms of import and beauty are rare. Subtle choice on your part.

Con mucho gusto. Es correcto? Mi Espanol es muy feo! Yea I know I missed the tilde!

Michael

Thank you all for your great suggestions!!

I'm going through all of them and still deciding... so please let me know any other ones as well! Thanks:)

It will help if you tell us which of these fine suggestions comes closest to your needs.

"It will help if you tell us which of these fine suggestions comes closest to your needs."
Would it help?... one would need to know something about the person, their occupation, or their handwriting to take more than a hundred-foot dart shot with a standard dart at a standard dart target in the dark of a moonless night, underwater, in one of those old diving bells and heavy suits, in the midst a school of medium-sized squid, arguably perhaps, wouldn't one? :)

Cheers!

Nah, just something that looks cool. Know it when you see it.

Indeed, David. I'm just looking to get clear of the squid at least.

"Nah, just something that looks cool. Know it when you see it."
I know it when I see it. You know it when you see it. We each know it when we see it. No argument there. The question is, how many questions does it take to see it for someone else. I think the number is greater than zero, while our local script shriekers think otherwise. (Or call a blue whale, I think).

Cheers!

I really like http://Feel Script and it has a lot of alternates too.

Liza from Underware looks promising.

I love Olicana Rough. It is HUGE :-)

http://www.typophile.com/node/34637

Thanks!!!

I really like the Olicana but don't see it available anywhere. Do you know if it is available for purchase?

There're so many great options here and it is hard for me to decide. I think that it's a "know it when you see it" kind of thing because my "finalists" are very different from each other!

I'm going to be choosing two or three different fonts now (one for the resume, one for the website and one for a PDF with examples of my design work).

Some of the fonts that I'm considering are:

Olicana Smooth
Corinthia
Eye Catching
Emily Austin
Banana
Louisiana

Thanks for all of your help and great suggestions:)

Hi Lauren,

Olicana is available here.

checkout more free script/webdings style fonts at

http://tools.khrido.com/webtools/fonts-collection.aspx

great collection with easy downloads.