I HAVE A PEN! I LIKE IT!
Feb. 4th, 2004 07:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ktronok, quick background. you know milton, the guy from office space who's waaaaay too attached to his red swingline stapler? hate to say it, but i totally sympathize. i get pathetic over office supplies, and i agree that the swinglines are the best. but my big issue is pens. i can't stand most of the pens provided at the office. i was actually resorting to begging and pleading and trading with my co-workers when the spending freeze made us run out of the one kind i tolerate. i don't even have pretty handwriting, but i'm a freak about it.
anyways, i love fountain pens. i found this out in france, where they're plentiful and cheap. then i came back to the US... and, um, forget about it.
i still have my favorite, a plain metal fine-point one made by waterman. it still writes beautifully, it's got a nice weight to it. i paid about $8 for it.
unfortunately, most of the ones i've bought here in the states are leaky disasters. my dad found one that showed up in my xmas stocking last year that was fantastic for a while, but its nib's been feeling a bit under the weather here lately. other than that the best i've found in my price range are the disposable ones that pilot makes.
so delight quickly gave way to impulsiveness when i found a waterman fountain pen set including lots of ink cartridges and even a liquid ink converter in office max today. waterman! they who made the perfection that is my favorite pen! nearly $30, but dammit, if it doesn't leak it's worth it. and so far it's not leaking. and it's pretty -- all blue and gold detailing! and it doesn't skip!! medium-nibbed, but i suppose that i can forgive it.
boy, do i feel neurotic... but neurotically happy and pen-possessing!
anyways, i love fountain pens. i found this out in france, where they're plentiful and cheap. then i came back to the US... and, um, forget about it.
i still have my favorite, a plain metal fine-point one made by waterman. it still writes beautifully, it's got a nice weight to it. i paid about $8 for it.
unfortunately, most of the ones i've bought here in the states are leaky disasters. my dad found one that showed up in my xmas stocking last year that was fantastic for a while, but its nib's been feeling a bit under the weather here lately. other than that the best i've found in my price range are the disposable ones that pilot makes.
so delight quickly gave way to impulsiveness when i found a waterman fountain pen set including lots of ink cartridges and even a liquid ink converter in office max today. waterman! they who made the perfection that is my favorite pen! nearly $30, but dammit, if it doesn't leak it's worth it. and so far it's not leaking. and it's pretty -- all blue and gold detailing! and it doesn't skip!! medium-nibbed, but i suppose that i can forgive it.
boy, do i feel neurotic... but neurotically happy and pen-possessing!
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Date: 2004-02-04 09:57 pm (UTC)Re: eee
Date: 2004-02-04 11:10 pm (UTC)ooh, and the other thing i miss - in france, you can get "erasable" blue ink cartridges. and then buy a special pen that turns that ink into basically invisible ink... the other end of the eraser pens is a small felt-tip pen with non-erasable ink so you can write in corrections. this makes it tons more practical to write with a fountain pen, eliminate all the blots, etc. plus, once your hands get all inky, if you can't get out of class to go wash them, you can sit there and erase the ink when it gets boring! alas, i guess the bic hit big here before that technology was developed? otherwise, i can't see why fountain pens are everywhere there and nowhere here...