Usually I bring three fountain pens to work (mainly because my favorite and most portable of my far too many pen case type things hold 3 pens). I also always have a ballpoint, mechanical pencil, and usually a gel pen and/or marker somewhere in my bag. I have about 8 or 9 fountain pens inked up though because I want to use my pens and I want to have a bunch of colors! It does make me slightly uneasy, though, in a way that 3 or 4 pens wouldn't. (I have a sort of system where the inked pens live in pen trays on or near my desk.). And my notes are neither color-coded nor well-organized, but they are colorful! I love Footnote 2. I recently realized that it no longer much matters what I wear, because I've aged into the eccentric old lady bracket. Definitely not worried about carrying too many pens! It's kinda great!
Thank you for reading the footnotes! Yeah, this "pen" blog often veers into being a blog about aging in America, where after a certain age our options seem to be "eccentric" or "invisible." I see we have made the same choice.
I bring as many pens as I feel like, which is generally at least 6 and often 10, because I like variation when I write. I like my variation, that I do.
Of course, I only use fountain pens... but I've got a small Pilot... is it Flighter they're called? A tiny one, in any case, with both ballpoint (or rollerball, whatever) and mechanical pencil in one. Never know when I have to write with the latter in my physical calendar.
And it's a chance to gently bring more knowledge of how awesome fountain pens are, out into the world.
And if I don't use physical pens, whatever the meeting was about just... completely disappears within minutes of leaving it.
Hi! Vic here. I usually carry around a semi-rigid Moleskine case which was designed to writing objects but that i somehow adapted to make do, and in it i usually bring 11 (yes, eleven) fountain pens, because i just love fountain pens and happen to have 11 differently couloured inks, plus one very basic and cheappy mechanical pencil (nice to resolve crossword puzzles) and one all-metal Parker Jotter ballpoint (yes i'm with you, SOMETIMES one needs to sign whatever...). Inevitably sometimes the question pops up and i try to explain the ridiculous little pleasures findable around the act of writing by hand with liquid ink and a classic instrument. Usually the reaction of this extra-modern times of tech-above-everything trained people lies somewhat around comiseration for the poor simpleton who doesn't prefer to use the last iphone model to register his ideas. I usually end up with some kind of pity dor them, back, and willing to use more often that acrimonious ANSWER TO RULE ALL ANSWERS: simply 'WHY NOT?". Cheers! Vic, from Portugal.
Man, you guys are so much better at managing your inked pens! I currently have a sixth pen inked up that I use just for practicing flex writing and that kind of stresses me out.
Lol chill out and enjoy The Pen. The Pen will render You mighty and powerful. Hail The Pen! He Who from that stony penstay draws The Pen is the true king of Penpolis. Vic, from Portugal.
Usually I bring three fountain pens to work (mainly because my favorite and most portable of my far too many pen case type things hold 3 pens). I also always have a ballpoint, mechanical pencil, and usually a gel pen and/or marker somewhere in my bag. I have about 8 or 9 fountain pens inked up though because I want to use my pens and I want to have a bunch of colors! It does make me slightly uneasy, though, in a way that 3 or 4 pens wouldn't. (I have a sort of system where the inked pens live in pen trays on or near my desk.). And my notes are neither color-coded nor well-organized, but they are colorful! I love Footnote 2. I recently realized that it no longer much matters what I wear, because I've aged into the eccentric old lady bracket. Definitely not worried about carrying too many pens! It's kinda great!
Thank you for reading the footnotes! Yeah, this "pen" blog often veers into being a blog about aging in America, where after a certain age our options seem to be "eccentric" or "invisible." I see we have made the same choice.
I bring as many pens as I feel like, which is generally at least 6 and often 10, because I like variation when I write. I like my variation, that I do.
Of course, I only use fountain pens... but I've got a small Pilot... is it Flighter they're called? A tiny one, in any case, with both ballpoint (or rollerball, whatever) and mechanical pencil in one. Never know when I have to write with the latter in my physical calendar.
And it's a chance to gently bring more knowledge of how awesome fountain pens are, out into the world.
And if I don't use physical pens, whatever the meeting was about just... completely disappears within minutes of leaving it.
Hi! Vic here. I usually carry around a semi-rigid Moleskine case which was designed to writing objects but that i somehow adapted to make do, and in it i usually bring 11 (yes, eleven) fountain pens, because i just love fountain pens and happen to have 11 differently couloured inks, plus one very basic and cheappy mechanical pencil (nice to resolve crossword puzzles) and one all-metal Parker Jotter ballpoint (yes i'm with you, SOMETIMES one needs to sign whatever...). Inevitably sometimes the question pops up and i try to explain the ridiculous little pleasures findable around the act of writing by hand with liquid ink and a classic instrument. Usually the reaction of this extra-modern times of tech-above-everything trained people lies somewhat around comiseration for the poor simpleton who doesn't prefer to use the last iphone model to register his ideas. I usually end up with some kind of pity dor them, back, and willing to use more often that acrimonious ANSWER TO RULE ALL ANSWERS: simply 'WHY NOT?". Cheers! Vic, from Portugal.
Man, you guys are so much better at managing your inked pens! I currently have a sixth pen inked up that I use just for practicing flex writing and that kind of stresses me out.
Lol chill out and enjoy The Pen. The Pen will render You mighty and powerful. Hail The Pen! He Who from that stony penstay draws The Pen is the true king of Penpolis. Vic, from Portugal.