My favorite pencil - one that I've had for nearly 9 years - died on my this month. I had fed it cheapo pencil lead, which breaks easily, and thus smashes into powder easily. Which then clogs the mechanism in my mechanical pencil. Boo to cheapo lead.
Luckily, I had some forethought and bought two more when I was in Hong Kong last summer. It's great because usually my fore-thinking is just worrying, since nothing that catastrophic has happened to me, for which I'm thankful for.
It's just nice to be reminded that thinking forwardly is useful, and not a waste of brain space after all.
Next up: use up that cheapo lead as fast as possible so I can get the good lead so my favorite, difficult to acquire, pencils won't break. Maybe give the lead to my students as a prize? What? They have cheapo Bic pencils. Not my precious, genius, and simplistically designed pencils.
2 comments:
what about Japantown in SF? they have quality pencil lead, i think. or you don't even have to go to Japantown - at the Westfield in downtown SF, there's this store called Maido that also sells quality pencil lead.
*sigh* the price we pay for being pencil snobs. i shudder every time i see/am forced to use a regular pencil.
hahaha! yes, I'm definitely a "pencil snob."
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