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I recently, when filling out an application and hand-delivering it to Social Security, realized that was the end of my list of Reasonably Important, Official Things I Should Do Something About and suddenly I was in the happily unencumbered state of not having anything ominous that I really should just get around to doing already. (This doesn't apply to making the doctor's appointment I should make, because it's not an urgent one, and also it's not official, ie potentially legal, even if it is important.)
It's a dizzying sensation which was only slightly lessened when I realized I should technically also write somebody a polite email about it!
I decided I needed to celebrate because it was such a tremendous difference in background stress levels.
And I determined I'd do that by finally getting a fountain pen that is safe to carry around in my notebook and also fits in it!
I have two reliable fountain pens that always write without hesitation, won't break and don't ever leak: the Kaweco Sport Classic and the Lamy Safari... but both of these pens are slightly too fat to fit in the pen loop in my primary notebook, which is extremely annoying. (I followed a little tutorial to make an elastic pen loop attached to a mini binder clip, and it works fine, but I can't find a part of the notebook to attach it to that I don't need to use regularly and taking it off every time I open the notebook to write is also extremely annoying.) (I know the Pilot Metropolitan would also fit this bill while filling out the classic triumvirate of reliable beginner pens, but the shops within the EU never stock them in colors acceptable to me.)
I have several pens that will fit in this penloop readily enough: a couple of Hero 616s (decent clones of the iconic Parker 51, nice writers but aerometric fill, which annoys me, and both leak and blot) and a whole handful of Platinum Preppies (but these can leak when used as eyedropper pens once the ink level gets too low; also, they're a bit flimsy and I've already broken a cap of one, which raises the unfortunate spectre of breaking in a bag or pocket - great for keeping in the pen cup with different ink colors though, as they write well and never seem to dry up).
So I just need a slimmer yet sturdy pen here, which is unfortunately a bit vague. Even if I narrow it down to piston-fillers, which I also wanted the next pen that I buy to be, I'm having some trouble making a decision... though in this case it's a nice dithering as opposed to the familiar avoidance, so that makes a nice change.
It's a dizzying sensation which was only slightly lessened when I realized I should technically also write somebody a polite email about it!
I decided I needed to celebrate because it was such a tremendous difference in background stress levels.
And I determined I'd do that by finally getting a fountain pen that is safe to carry around in my notebook and also fits in it!
I have two reliable fountain pens that always write without hesitation, won't break and don't ever leak: the Kaweco Sport Classic and the Lamy Safari... but both of these pens are slightly too fat to fit in the pen loop in my primary notebook, which is extremely annoying. (I followed a little tutorial to make an elastic pen loop attached to a mini binder clip, and it works fine, but I can't find a part of the notebook to attach it to that I don't need to use regularly and taking it off every time I open the notebook to write is also extremely annoying.) (I know the Pilot Metropolitan would also fit this bill while filling out the classic triumvirate of reliable beginner pens, but the shops within the EU never stock them in colors acceptable to me.)
I have several pens that will fit in this penloop readily enough: a couple of Hero 616s (decent clones of the iconic Parker 51, nice writers but aerometric fill, which annoys me, and both leak and blot) and a whole handful of Platinum Preppies (but these can leak when used as eyedropper pens once the ink level gets too low; also, they're a bit flimsy and I've already broken a cap of one, which raises the unfortunate spectre of breaking in a bag or pocket - great for keeping in the pen cup with different ink colors though, as they write well and never seem to dry up).
So I just need a slimmer yet sturdy pen here, which is unfortunately a bit vague. Even if I narrow it down to piston-fillers, which I also wanted the next pen that I buy to be, I'm having some trouble making a decision... though in this case it's a nice dithering as opposed to the familiar avoidance, so that makes a nice change.
